F6 "Other Options" menu puts kernel options in wrong place
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
The live-CD based installer (Ubuntu 8.10) does not preserve the kernel options it is booted with to the installation it creates.
This means that if you boot the live-CD based installer with the kernel options "noapic nolapic acpi=off" then the installation of Ubuntu it creates does not have these options in the grub config file.
My friend needed to add these options because that is the only way she could get the installer to boot. By not preserving them, this means that the Ubuntu installation it created for her wouldn't boot!
This should be a relatively easy fix, since the Ubuntu installer can inspect /proc/cmdline when it creates the grub menu.lst file, and preserve any options such as these. This would of saved me a lot of time explaining how grub works and how to configure it to her, and would certainly have given her a better impression of Ubuntu.
Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu: | |
assignee: | nobody → cjwatson |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
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