Ubuntu
grub package

  1. Bug #493196
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 493196

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report

The relevant message is:
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ...

Could not find /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Would you like /boot/grub/menu.lst generated for you? (y/N) N

Not creating /boot/grub/menu.lst as you wish

User postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 1

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You have received this error because grub is installed and configured as your bootloader, but you have no menu.lst telling the system how to boot; and you ran the package installation non-interactively, preventing update-grub from automatically creating the menu file to fix this. The error therefore appears to be correctly notifying you of a problem on your system, which you need to take action to correct. Closing this bug report as invalid.