Hi Frans, thanks for the detailed answer.
|--==> Frans Pop writes: FP> 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. FP> It seems to me that this would be a lot more complex and thus fragile than FP> the current method. It would also require D-I making changes in a FP> partition that is "owned" by another operating system, and I'm not sure FP> we should do that. Yeah, and it that is basically the answer I gave them as well. FP> Even if you would make a copy of the existing menu.lst, you'd have to do FP> extensive checks that its format is compatible with debian and add the FP> support for automatically updating it when new kernels are installed. FP> My first reaction is that if people have such a complex setup that a newly FP> generated menu.lst does not fit their needs, they will probably have also FP> the skills to either: FP> - make their old grub configuration active again and add the new debian FP> system in that (although they should probably have selected the "don't FP> install a boot loader" option in that case anyway FP> - copy their old grub configuration and adapt that FP> - adapt the new grub configuration Fairly complex indeed.. FP> However, patches are welcome and will be considered. Note that we will FP> likely switch to grub2 sometime for lenny which AFAICT uses a different FP> file with slightly different syntax. Ciao, Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
