On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:23:32PM +0300, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: > Package: grub > Severity: important > > I have been wondering for a long time why the menu.lst gets automatically updated on a single host out of my whole > i386 cluster. The answer seems to be that update-grub won't automatically run whenever upgrading or removing > kernel-images, because the following hooks are missing in /etc/kernel-img.conf: > > # Update the GRUB menu > postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub > postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub > > Given how Debian standardizes on GRUB starting with Sarge, it would be important that GRUB's installation scripts add > the above lines to /etc/kernel-img.conf automatically, upon installing or upgrading GRUB. This would be easy to > implement and would save the end-user a lot of troubles, thus making Debian more user-friendly.
Dear Debian Developers. you receive this mail because I just cant get a clear view how to solve my following problem and to which bug it belongs to. Please dont bite my head (filing a new bug probably would be even worse). In the hope to get a clearing answer I CC debian-devel. Applying a recent security update of linux-2.6 (DSA-1872-1) in lenny the system suddenly seemed unbootable (at least for a person without any debian skills). The reason was a _silent_ reconfiguration of device names. My wish: * please provide a (half) automated, maybe interactive, way to verify the configuration of fstab / menu.lst (and related) in any matching postinst script * in #debian-devel i got the hint to switch from device names to UUIDs - is there a way to provide this automatically? * will UUIDs according to rfc4122 ever be default in debian? To me this problem doesn't seem to be grub specific, or do LILO and GRUB2 have a solution for it? #271269 grub - how to deal with /etc/kernel-img.conf and update-grub on kernel-image changes "Maybe dpkg triggers is the answer (we have a separate bug for that, IIRC)." #499176 grub - should fail verbosely when root device cannot be found "update-grub needs to identify the current root in order to construct grub.cfg / menu.lst. fstab was not reliable, so it's no longer being used." #510223 grub - linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: upgrade from etch to lenny fails in postinst "update-grub is supplied by grub, this looks like #499176." Please do whateever you think should be done (except punching me :) Have a nice day! kardan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
