Dustin Kirkland [2008-12-04 12:51 -0000]:
> Would would you think of adding a bit to the grub postinst that
> detected if you were upgrading from a certain version, and if you have
> root (or /boot) on a RAID device, and if so, run grub-install on that
> device?
That doesn't seem to be a problem which got introduced with these
patches? I. e. if you didn't have grub on the "other" device, it
formerly would fail to boot, too?
I am a bit nervous about automatically changing the boot sector of
already installed systems, TBH. There might be cases where people
explicitly configured it that way. So adding a postinst snippet to
detect this situation is fine, of course.
Or is the problem that configuration files actually *say* "please
install grub on all devices", but we just didn't? In that case this
change would be okay for me.
Dustin Kirkland [2008-12-04 12:51 -0000]:
> Would would you think of adding a bit to the grub postinst that
> detected if you were upgrading from a certain version, and if you have
> root (or /boot) on a RAID device, and if so, run grub-install on that
> device?
That doesn't seem to be a problem which got introduced with these
patches? I. e. if you didn't have grub on the "other" device, it
formerly would fail to boot, too?
I am a bit nervous about automatically changing the boot sector of
already installed systems, TBH. There might be cases where people
explicitly configured it that way. So adding a postinst snippet to
detect this situation is fine, of course.
Or is the problem that configuration files actually *say* "please
install grub on all devices", but we just didn't? In that case this
change would be okay for me.
Thanks,
Martin
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