raring grub-pc does not allow choice of stock kernel vs mainline kernel

Bug #1100958 reported by jerrylamos

This bug report was converted into a question: question #219474: raring grub-pc does not allow choice of stock kernel vs mainline kernel.

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Bug Description

Grub2 can't choose kernels
Grub2 does not allow choice of "mainline kernel" vs. stock Ubuntu kernel.

In:

ttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds?action=show&redirect=KernelMainline Builds

it says:

"The mainline kernels have their own ABI namespace so they install side by side with the stock Ubuntu kernels (each kernel has a separate directory under /lib/modules/VERSION for example). This means that you can keep several mainline and Ubuntu stock kernels installed at the same time and select the one you need from the GRUB boot menu."

Here's from /boot:

Jan 9 22:44 config-3.8.0-030800rc3-generic
Jan 15 16:01 config-3.8.0-0-generic

Now in fact /boot/grub/grub.cfg does show entries for both kernels, but the Grub2 menu on boot does not show the stock Ubuntu kernel or allow choosing it.

How do I get Grub2 boot menu to display all the kernels that are in grub.cfg?

Thanks....btw, amd64

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: grub-pc 2.00-10ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-030800rc3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 17 15:58:39 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-14 (34 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121213)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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jerrylamos (jerrylamos) wrote :
Phillip Susi (psusi)
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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jerrylamos (jerrylamos) wrote :

Phillip Susi, why is this invalid? Ubuntu isn't working the way it is stated to?

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jerrylamos (jerrylamos) wrote :

If I choose "advanced options" which usually means "recovery mode" it did in fact list

upstream kernel
recovery mode upstream kernel
stock kernel
recovery mode stock kernel

I would never have guessed that this is how to boot either kernel.

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