Ubuntu
grub2 package

  1. Bug #1273764
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1273764

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Gilberto Gaudêncio (quazatron) wrote : Re: Grub ignores options on /etc/default/grub

I've determined the cause of this bug in my case: I have a small /boot partition outside of the root filesystem (btrfs).
Turns out that that boot partition was not added to the /etc/fstab, so all the kernel upgrading and upgrade-grub operations I was doing were in fact affecting the /boot directory inside the root (btrfs) filesystem, not the actual boop (ext2) partition.

Added the partition to /etc/fstab, cleaned the /boot mountpoint and now all is good in the world. :-)