Where is boot-admin?
Bug #41762 reported by
Benjamín Valero Espinosa
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have been searching for grubconf in Breezy or Dapper, but I have found that it has been included in the gnome-system-tools. So, in the description of that package I can read that it is that way:
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Nowadays there are tools for managing:
- Users and groups
- Date and time
- Network configuration
- Bootloaders
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But in the files installed there is no boot-admin executable. Where is that program? Has it been removed for any security reason?
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boot-admin was removed from the package because it had issues with the type of configuration files used by Ubuntu (dataloss in a program like this could make your machine unbootable).
Generally, Ubuntu kernels are automatically added to the grub menu (see the 'update-grub' manpage for details of how that happens), so you do not need to do anything special, except maybe remove old kernels after a system upgrade.
If you compile your own kernels, you can run 'update-grub' manually, or roll a package from the source using 'make-kpkg' (in kernel-package) - it has extensive documentation in its manpage and /usr/share/ doc/kernel- package
If you consider that grubconf should be added to Ubuntu, please suggest it for inclusion at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/MOTU/ Packages/ Candidates