Howdie, fellow Debianites! I've just tried to install Grub2 to my spare Lenny installation. I am baffled (not to say disappointed) by the results:
1. -- kernel automagic configuration hasn't been copied over from the legacy menu.lst to the new grub.cfg 2. -- chainloader stanzas from the old menu.lst are likewise lost 3. -- the command upgrade-from-grub-legacy installs the new boot loader into the MBR, not letting you select a partition instead of the MBR (overwriting any custom MBR you may have). Admittedly, this is only a minor nuisance, but a nuisance still. 4. -- it didn't pick up the right partitions of my installed systems, so I had to manually edit grub.cfg, changing various "set root=(hd0,1)" into "set root=(hd0,2)" and the like. And this was on a pretty simple setup: only a single hard drive, with just four primary partitions (Swap, Lenny, LennySpare, and Home). Luckily, I did this on my "LennySpare" installation, which I use for testing stuff and such ... My question is: will Lenny still be able to update its list of kernels automagically with all its "automagic" gone? Less importantly: couldn't the Grub installer be made to at least copy your existing chainloading stanzas over to grub.cfg? Isn't that a totally trivial thing to do, even for such a "work in progress" as the Grub2 project currently is? -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
