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Re: Some comments on grub2 on gutsy


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Some comments on grub2 on gutsy
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:14:23 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:14:33PM +1200, Centurion Computer Technology (2005) 
Ltd wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 20:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > On the GRUB menu apart from the regular entries there is also a
> > > chainload to GRUB 2. When I enter that I get a menu similar to GRUB
> > > menu but without any entries. Dunno why it is there, can anybody
> > > explain ?
> > > 
> > > This is just a comment on how it looks on gutsy, nothing else, sorry
> > > if its out of line of context of the mailing list.
> > 
> > If you mean to use the Debian package, please get the official one from
> > debian sid (rebuilding if necessary).  This looks like an update-grub issue,
> > but I can't really tell since I don't know if the package has been modified
> > (or how).
> > 
> Apparently if grub2 is installed on a debian system which has
> grub-legacy installed as the default bootloader, if you do and update
> grub, it automagically adds the chainload to grub2. 

Yes, and update-grub is also run for grub2, generating a (hopefuly) sane
grub.cfg.  This is the normal behaviour and works for most users of the Debian
package.

As for the Ubuntu forked version, I don't really know. Sometimes they add their
own changes, but never tell me about them.  Occasionaly they pick a version of
the package that is broken and put that in release (IIRC this happened in edgy).

No offence intended but, overall, this is why I ask him to test the official
debian package first.

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