"Sridhar M.A." wrote > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:24:35AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:26, Mauro Darida wrote: > > > Some questions on coming Sarge release: > > > 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? > > > > Yes. When you compile a kernel it updates grub's menu.lst automatically. > > > Is it? On my machine, it has not done that. I use make-kpkg to build my > own kernels. It has never touched my /boot/grub/menus.lst for putting > any entry. >
Its not actually during compilation, but when you install the kernel. Here is the screen output of dpkg installing a new kernel: thinkpad:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119_custom.1.00_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119. (Reading database ... 60780 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119 (from kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119_custom.1.00_i386.deb) ... Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119 (custom.1.00) ... Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-ndis-20041119 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-20041119-ndis Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
