Am Samstag, den 29.08.2009, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Package: grub-pc > Version: 1.96+20090317-1 > Severity: normal > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > grub-pc shouldn't try to update from GRUB 1 menu.lst again once it did it > before. Instead it should move /boot/grub/menu.lst out of the way and use > the pre-existing grub 2 configuration on upgrades. > > As grub-pc from sid rendered my system unbootable today, the downgrade to > grub-pc from squeeze broke my linux command line options badly cause it > didn't take the right ones from GRUB 2 configuration, but the outdated > wrong once from GRUB 1 menu.lst. > > I now moved /boot/grub/menu.lst out of the way manually, but a Debian > stable user shouldn't have to do this manually. Thus after upgrading the > configuration from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 manually the post-install script should > just rename menu.lst to something else, so its not used again. >
GRUB 2 never uses menu.lst. The grub-pc.config script only extracts once the kopt parameter from it and saves it in /etc/default/grub. And if you choose to chainload grub2 then the update-grub from grub-legacy is run with a special variable set, so that it generates a menu entry for GRUB 2. In the sid version I changed the handling of the Linux kernel parameters, it could be that this doestn't work cleanly with a downgrade but this isn't fixable. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
