Debian Installation :: Getting Two Grub Menus
Sep 27, 2014
I have just upgraded my Xen system from squeeze to wheezy. Things seem to have worked except for one very important problem: I'm getting two grub menus. I get one white-on-blue that comes up first. It says GNU GRUB version 1.99-27+deb7u2 at the top. (It defaults to the wrong image... but that is an issue to address later.) I choose "Xen 4.1-amd64".Then I get a second grub menu that is white on black: GNU GRUB version 1.99-27+deb7u2 at the top. I have two options "Debian GNU Linux with Xen 4.4-amd64 and Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64" and the other "Debian GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.1-amd64 and Linux 3.2.04-amd64 (recovery m->"
This is reminiscent of the cascade option from upgrading from legacy grub to grub2... but both menus say 1.99-27... so I don't know what the heck is going on here. I have tried running upgrade-from-grub-legacy and grub-install and grub-updater etc. etc... but it always comes up the same. I cannot have that. This is a server, I need it to boot to the appropriate kernel image -- and preferably with only one grub menu!Here are the grub-related packages I have installed:
Code: Select all# aptitude search grub
i grub - GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package)
p grub-choose-default - Control Grub Default through a GUI
i A grub-common - GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
p grub-coreboot - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Coreboot versi
p grub-coreboot-bin - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Coreboot binar
p grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
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# grub-install /dev/sda1
[where sda1 is my root partition]
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root@robgeek:/home/rob# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
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Disk identifier: 0xe274e274
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Code:
Select allfilesystem unknown
Grub rescue >
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I've connected the ISO to the machine but i don't know what yo do next.
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Code: Select allsearch --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6ee49a8e-a619-49c7-9f66-51a5ca9a48cc
linux /boot/vmlinuz-316-x86_64 root=/dev/sdb3
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Code: Select alllinux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae root=UUID=c2eecf02-d427-4f2e-9fd0-9db61256cbac ro quiet
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