Yay, someone else can see the problem. I wrote a replacement for update-grub and nobody wanted to test it.
Good Luck! On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:33:34PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > severity 383282 important > retitle 383282 update-grub and current menu.lst file are not user-friendly > thanks, > > Hello, > > I believe the problem you are dealing with is due to a not very clear usage of > menu.lst as a configuration file for update-grub. > > Please look in you menu.lst, you'll find a line with: > > ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST > > followed by some documentation on how to modify the parameters update-grub > uses. After that lines like: > > # groot=(hd0,0) > > Which look like comments but aren't really comments, those are the settings > that update-grub will use to regenerate the automatic grub entries. > > By the look of the changes in the menu.lst you submitted you'll probably have > those set as: > > # groot=(hd0,6) > # kopt=root=/dev/hda7 ro > > Now, if you change those and then run "update-grub" as root, you'll probably > fix your particular problem, but I believe this is still a bug in grub. > > update-grub should have a configuration file on its own (/etc/grub/grub.conf, > for example), where the configuration is not done in comments. > > update-grub should also check if the user has modified the text inside the > AUTOMATIC statements, a simple md5 check would be enough for that. If it has > changed, a sane procedure could be to append the user modified configurations > under a title !! Manually modified automatic grub entries, please check your > /etc/grub/grub.conf !! > > I don't think this is such a difficult thing to do. If the maintainers think > it's worth it, I could try to come up with a patch that makes update grub > behave as described, together with a transitional script for updating all the > current installed instances. > > -- > "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build > bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce > bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." > -- (Rich Cook) > Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
