I'm running a Debian server on a hosted service where I have no webbased console access to the computer. I needed to upgrade the installation and also the kernel, but after reboot 2.6 kernel is still used. The server uses grub-legacy due to the virtualization platform. /boot/grub/menu.lst contains the new kernel, and also default 0.
Since I cannot see what happens during boot time I don't know if the boot menu is actually updated. Is there any way I could remotely debug this? I cannot continue the upgrade now because I need to get 3.2 kernel running to be able to install Jessie.
I have run update-grub and also installed grub to MBR. It may though be installed on partition as well, I did not setup the system originally.
## ## End Default Options ##
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=1ad904c4-eaf0-4860-86f0-fabfa5df7bc0 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=1ad904c4-eaf0-4860-86f0-fabfa5df7bc0 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 root=UUID=1ad904c4-eaf0-4860-86f0-fabfa5df7bc0 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 root=UUID=1ad904c4-eaf0-4860-86f0-fabfa5df7bc0 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
I tried bootinfoscript but it just prints
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
Identifying MBRs...
Finished. The results are in the file "RESULTS.txt"
and the result file contains nothing useful:
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
no valid partition table found
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/xvda1 1ad904c4-eaf0-4860-86f0-fabfa5df7bc0 ext3
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/disk/by-uuid/1ad904c4-eaf0-4860-86f0-fabfa5df7bc0 / ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=0,data=ordered)
