Comment 39 for bug 202009

Confirmed on jaunty.

This is a pretty serious problem. I just discovered that I haven't been running the latest kernel since about four releases ago. I don't really think it's fair to blame on the user for editing the wrong part of the file too. On my system the automagic kernels section was so big that when my test editor was positioned over the place in the list of kernels where I wanted to add the new boot option I couldn't even see the header and footer comments which indicated that this was an automatically created section.

The simplest workaround for this problem by the way is just moving the broken menu.lst and then running 'update-grub'. You can then grab the boot entries you want from the old file and put it in the correct place of the new menu.lst (ie above or below the automagic kernels list),