Mark wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Brunner, Brian T. > <BBrunner at gai-tronics.com> wrote: >> >> BINGO! Only one time did the word 'title' appear in his grub.conf. >> >> So I looked at the LAST not FIRST 'kernel' line after 'title' and noted >> that the 'kernel' info there matched what actually booted. >> >> I surmise that grub reads the title-to-title section top-to-bottom >> discarding any earlier 'kernel' line if it hits a subsequent 'kernel' >> line. > > NOT. > > The "boot=/dev/xxx" and "default=0" lines tell grub which kernel to > boot from which device, and it looks for the title with that > reference, 0-origin. Only if that boot fails does grub look elsewhere > for what to do. This is fairly well documented in 'info grub.' > > The (far) more likely explanation is either that the md raid is messed > up or there are multiple possible boot partitions that do not match > what the machine sees and what the user is looking at. I was sorta considering suggesting he run grub-install, and see if that fixed it. mark