Re: GRUB 2 does not show new kernel :(

[Bean <bean123@126.com>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:55:07AM +0530, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
>       Mr. Bean (chuckles knowing a different bean :) ) , first of all
> thank you for your time. You are right as far as unifont.pff is
> concerned.  I just did a search and saw that unifont is not installed.
> Have installed it now. But still the same issue is there.
> 
> btw I have two hard disks :-
> 
> shirish@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
> [sudo] password for shirish:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            1913       19457   140930212+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5            1913        6083    33503526    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6            6084       10254    33503526    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda7           10255       14425    33503526    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda8           14426       18596    33503526    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda9           18597       19457     6915951    7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2            1217        9483    66404677+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb3            9484        9733     2008125   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Another thing, is not written in /boot/grub/grub.cfg not to alter stuff ?
> 
> #
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
> #
> # It is automaticaly generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using
> templates from /etc/grub.d
> # and settings from /etc/default/grub
> #
> 
> Please lemme know what is to be done & will try accordingly.
> 

I recommend that you remove these lines:

font (hd1,1)/usr/share/grub/unifont.pff
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
terminal gfxterm

You will enter text mode, but this is not an issue since you're not using
any non ascii characters.

-- 
Bean