On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:18 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2011-05-16): > > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Package: base-installer > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Now that the various bootloaders have hooks to handle kernel > > > installation, or otherwise automatically handle all kernels via their > > > actual paths, do_symlinks doesn't seem necessary anymore. Please > > > consider defaulting it to "no". > > > > Josh, this is simply not true. Only grub and syslinux create menus of > > all installed kernels. I hope to get this changed for wheezy, but can't > > promise it. > > can you please send us an update to see how we stand WRT this bug report?
I haven't done anything about this and don't expect to do so any time
soon.
I think the GRUB maintainers are hoping to be able to support ~all our
Linux architectures, so we may at some point be able to stop supporting
direct loading of the kernel by the stupider boot-loaders. We're not
there yet, though.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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