Grub loaded to a different partition after upgrading 16.10 to 17.04

[wolfman]

Hi all,

the title says it all (Grub loaded to a different partition after upgrading 16.10 to 17.04), after upgrading UM16.10 via the terminal and restarting, Grub had loaded to partition /sda10 and not /sda as it should have done, I didn’t take much interest at the update process so only noticed what had happened after a reboot.

Further to the above problem, it did not have any entries for my other Ubuntu Mate installations ( /sda6 & /sda8) nor did it show my Windows 10 install?.

I did the update via the terminal using the following command:

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Is this a bug or by design?.

I used the live CD and Boot Repair to fix it no problem.

Systems on my main PC:

Win 10
UM16.04 English
UM16.04 German
(Now) UM 17.04 English

[anon42388993]

@wolfman

Grub had loaded to partition /sda10

Thats by design and will probably happen again to any of them (Mate installs) with a point release.

@wolfman

it did not have any entries for my other Ubuntu Mate installations ( /sda6 & /sda8) nor did it show my Windows 10 install

A bug? Maybe if someone can duplicate this. I cannot.

[wolfman]

Alrighty then, let’s wait and see if anyone else has the same problem.

[alpinejohn]

Hallo wolfman

Could this have anything to do with the "loss" of the swap partition - see

Swap file coming to 17.04 by default

I don’t know if its here or not or if this may be Ubuntu only. I upgraded my 16.10 to 17.04 which had a swap partition.

Someone asked (perhaps not in this post) what was the need/use for a swap partition - as far as i know on modern computers with lots of RAM it only really gets used if you put the computer into "hibernation" (the current session is saved to the swap when hibernating).

[wolfman]

Hi @alpinejohn,

I already have a swap partition set so I don’t think so?.