Am Samstag 29 August 2009 schrieben Sie: > Am Samstag, den 29.08.2009, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > Am Samstag 29 August 2009 schrieben Sie: > > > The grub-pc.config script only extracts once the kopt parameter > > > from it and saves it in /etc/default/grub. > > > > And thats the only parameter that was messed up after downgrading > > grub-pc from sid to squeeze. /etc/default/grub then contained kopt > > from menu.lst again. > > Hm grub-pc.config before I changed it checked if grub-pc/linux_cmdline > returns "fillme" and only then extracts the kopt value. > So that should only happen if you have purged the package and then > reinstalled it but not if you just downgraded with apt/dpkg.
Well I didn't purge the package before. > > > 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. > > > > No, I let it replace GRUB 1 completely. I was surprised that it even > > asked me that again, since I have been using GRUB 2 exclusively > > before. I have / on a ext4 since about a week or two so I wouldn't > > want to switch back to GRUB 1 anyway. > > The chainload question is (at least in the sid version) only asked if > stage2 and menu.lst exists and core.img not. /boot/grub/menu.lst and /boot/grub/stage1 were still floating around. But core.img should have been there too, since I used GRUB 2 from sid before. After this incidence I renamed menu.lst. > > > 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. > > > > Well when its just a problem with an interim testing/unstable version > > that stable users won't see that might not be a big problem. But if > > someone experiences a problem on upgrading grub-pc from lenny to > > squeeze when its stable and gets that problem own downgrade that > > wouldn't be that convenient. OTOH AFAIR package downgrades aren't > > supported officially. > > Yes they aren't. You can't upgrade from oldstable to stable and then > downgrade again to oldstable. So you close that bug? I am okay with that. I am more interested that the grub-pc that will enter squeeze is going to be rock stable. When I think over it, I do not care about some interim versions between Lenny and Squeeze that much. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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