GRUB example conflicts with hardy grub

[Christian Meier]

Binary package hint: fai-doc

I am using hardy-jeos-i396 daily build (25 of Jan) and fai

Fai examples include a menu.lst file (config/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/GRUB) that is copied by scripts/GRUB/10-setup.
The newest GRUB version has introduced ucf to maintain the menu.lst.

If fai copies the file, and update-grub later uses ucf, the kernel list doesn't get updated, because it is interpreted as a user configured file.

A solution might be to let update-grub do all the job.
So we delete the menu.lst/GRUB and mv the menu.list/postinst to config/scripts/GRUB/10-setup and change the following details:

remove perl command
and change
$ROOTCMD /usr/sbin/update-grub
to
echo y | $ROOTCMD /us/sbin/update-grub

Maybe there exists another solution: First register the menu.lst to ucf, and then
run update-grup with exported USE_FORCE_CONFFNEW, but I haven't tried that yet.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

how about using 'update-grub -y', as described in update-grub(8)? ;)

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

after discussing this with Christian and Achim, we will upload with 'update-grub -y' to hardy.

This is of course breaks fcopy'ed menu.lsts, but you have to make the decision here: Either you want the file to be managed with fai or with update-grub. The mixed managed that was in place up to now doesn't work anymore with the new ucf-managed grub.

[free-x (free-x)]

I have tried follow GRUB/10-setup
#! /bin/bash

error=0 ; trap "error=$((error|1))" ERR

$ROOTCMD update-grub -y

exit $error

It doesn't works for me :-(

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fai - 3.2.4+svn4837-0ubuntu2

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fai (3.2.4+svn4837-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * upload to hardy

fai (3.2.4+svn4837-0ubuntu2~ppa3) hardy; urgency=low

  * simple config GRUB/10-setup: add to kernel-img.conf postinst and postrm
    hook settings that run update-grub. Without them, grub's menu.lst is not
    updated on linux image installation/removal.

fai (3.2.4+svn4837-0ubuntu2~ppa2) hardy; urgency=low

  * don't install menu.lst and GRUB postinst script at all in the binary
    package by removing them in the clean rule of debian/rules
  * remove console-data support, show how to preseed console-setup in the
    example class GERMAN. (LP: #207756)

fai (3.2.4+svn4837-0ubuntu2~ppa1) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Christian Meier ]
  * bin/fai, lib/get-config-dir-nfs: always use -n option in romountopt to
    prevent accessing /etc/mtab in read-only environment
    (closes: LP: #207582)
  * fix grub example (closes LP: #187659)
    * remove menu.lst of examples
    * move the postinst script of menu.lst to
      examples/simple/scripts/GRUB/10-setup and modify it to let update-grub
      do the configuration of menu.lst
  * workaround for not correctly working unionfs over nfs
    * create nfshooks (/etc/fai/10-unionfs-workaround) that delete certain
      files in nfsroot that will be created automatically through fai scripts.
      (LP: #197006)
  * add ghostscript to build dependencies
  * don't fail build if there are no postinst scripts in the 'simple-example'
    configuration space

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * add genisofs alternative to mkisofs in fai-server and fai-quickstart
    packages (LP: #156836)

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:41:34 +0200