Am Freitag, den 24.07.2009, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Olaf van der Spek: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Felix Zielcke<fziel...@z-51.de> wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 30.01.2009, 14:58 +0100 schrieb Olaf van der Spek: > >> Package: grub-pc > >> Version: 1.96+20080724-14 > >> Severity: normal > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I ran into something comparable to 497791. > >> A grub-install 'fixed' it. > >> > >> > On i386-pc, the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB > >> automatically > >> > >> I didn't see this line until I filed this bug. How am I supposed to know > >> this and why doesn't it do this automatically? > >> > >> Greetings, > >> > >> Olaf > >> > > > > We added now a debconf prompt for running grub-install. > > It didn't do it yet because you can't safely execute just grub-install > > '(hd0)' > > device.map could be outdated and hd0 doestn't point to the actual boot > > device. > > But now debconf shows a list of devices taken from device.map and then > > runs grub-install over all that you select. > > How does that prevent the possibility of device.map being outdated?
If /boot is on a different device then hd0 then UUIDs are now used to find it, so in that case it isn't anymore a problem if the order is just wrong. If you want to have grub on a device not in device.map it needs to be added there. It isn't possible to use grub-install on a device not in device.map There is no way for us to find out if it's required to regenerate device.map or not. But if /boot is on the same device as the one you want to install to it has to be correct in device.map, so it wouldn't be safe to just regenerate it. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
