[SOLVED] GRUB states Mageia version wrong

[hosadeeb]

Dear Mageia,
I had had a silly problem when I upgraded from Mga 6 to Mga 7: GRUB displayed the installed version as Cauldron, whereas it was the regular one (using the mga upgrade tool). I paid little attention to the glitch, back then.

Now, after upgrading to Mga 8, GRUB still insists on displaying "Cauldron 7"!!!! Even after two kernel updates...

I looked at the files within /boot and /boot/grub, but found no specific files where the name of the distro was mentioned.

Could you point me in the right direction?!

Thanks a million in advance.

Hosam Adeeb Nashed

[doktor5000]

You may not have the correct grub theme installed. Do you use grub legacy or grub2 ?

[isadora]

I also have this same problem. When I was running Mga7 the boot menu said "Cauldron". Now I am running Mga8 it says "Magia 7".

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[dennis@noob ~]$ grub --version
grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)

[doktor5000]

I'm not sure if this has been fixed for grub legacy. You could try to reinstall (urpmi --replacepkgs --replacefiles) mageia-gfxboot-theme.
See also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27228

But IIRC I fixed this on my box by simply switching to grub2 via drakboot.

[dbg]

"simply switching to grub2 via drakboot"

yep, that fixed it! Thanks.

[morgano]

Great then

Please add [SOLVED] in front of heading in this thread first post.

[isadora]

I think this has to be done by OP.