On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:31, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > That was always fine for me, but recently I was asked by a couple of > users if it is possible to make the d-i detect if a GRUB instance > already exists, and possibly add an entry for the system being > installed to the relevant existing menu.lst, without generating its > own instance.
It seems to me that this would be a lot more complex and thus fragile than the current method. It would also require D-I making changes in a partition that is "owned" by another operating system, and I'm not sure we should do that. Even if you would make a copy of the existing menu.lst, you'd have to do extensive checks that its format is compatible with debian and add the support for automatically updating it when new kernels are installed. My first reaction is that if people have such a complex setup that a newly generated menu.lst does not fit their needs, they will probably have also the skills to either: - make their old grub configuration active again and add the new debian system in that (although they should probably have selected the "don't install a boot loader" option in that case anyway - copy their old grub configuration and adapt that - adapt the new grub configuration However, patches are welcome and will be considered. Note that we will likely switch to grub2 sometime for lenny which AFAICT uses a different file with slightly different syntax. Cheers, FJP
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