Re: Uploaded grub 0.5.96 (source i386) to master
Hi,
>>"Gord" == Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org> writes:
Gord> The correct solution to this is to make a symlink to the kernel you
Gord> want to boot, then use the symlink in the menu.lst (which Joseph
Gord> alluded to). I don't think any other kind of hackery is necessary.
I concur.
Gord> So, it is up to the make-kpkg folks to deal with this aspect of the
Gord> problem.
I think that with the configurability included in
/etc/kernel-img.conf we do indeed take care of it ...
Gord> It would be nice to generate a default menu.lst, but that
Gord> really only can be done by the user (due to the countless ways a fully
Gord> automatic installation can screw up your system). If this gets better
Gord> in the future, I'll support it in the GRUB Debian package.
I've always been vary of interleaving editing of a file by a
human and a script too.
Gord> At the very least I can add some documentation to GRUB's README.Debian
Gord> to point out how it should be done.
In /etc/kernel-img.conf (man kernel-img.conf for details)
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image_dest=/boot
do_bootloader=NO
relative_links=YES
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image_dest
If you want the symbolic link (or image, if
move_image is set) to be stored in elsewhere than /
set this variable to the dir where you want the
symbolic link. Please note that this is not a
Boolean variable. This may be of help to loadlin
users, who may set both this and move_image
Defaults to / This can be used in conjunction with
all above options except image_in_boot, which would
not make sense. (If both image_dest and
image_in_boot are set, image_in_boot overrides).
do_bootloader
If set to NO, this prevents the postinst from
running the boot loader. The user may still be
asked to create a floppy, unless do_bootfloppy is
also set to NO. Defaults to Yes.
relative_links
If set to yes, the kernel image postinst script
shall go to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that
the symbolic links are relative. Normally, the
symbolic links are relative when it is easily
determinable that relative links shall work.
Defaults to No.
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