Comment 8 for bug 26530

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 02:44:05 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Julian Gilbey <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#341897: grub: update-grub has stopped finding kernels not in /boot

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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:34:31AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:50:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:14:00PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Package: grub
> > > Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
> > > Severity: serious
> >=20
> > > Last time I used update-grub (a while ago, Jan 2005, I think!), it
> > > automagically added these entries at the end (the repetitiveness I can
> > > cope with, although it was buggy!)

> > Before or after the line

> > ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

> > ?

> Weird - my old menu.lst didn't have such a line. I've added the new
> boot options after this line in my new version.

> > The update-grub manpage makes no mention of managing boot options for
> > kernels or OSes located outside of /boot, and I can't remember a version
> > that did so. At least the second half of your cited entries were clear=
ly
> > added by debian-installer, not by update-grub; update-grub's only
> > responsibilities in this case are to *not* attempt to manage entries lo=
cated
> > below the 'END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST' line. And I can confirm =
that
> > the current version of update-grub still behaves as expected on my syst=
em.

> OK; you can close this report if you want to, then.

Ok, closing.

Cheers,
--=20
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
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