Martin Michlmayr wrote: > reassign 250626 grub-installer > retitle 250626 don't overwrite existing menu.lst > severity 250626 wishlist > thanks > > * Antonio Ingargiola <debian@fastwebnet.it> [2004-05-24 09:25]: > > I've installed Sarge on a machine with allready Sid, with a boot partition with lots of kernels. > > Installing grub result in deletion (without backup) of the old menu.lst. The section for the > > Sarge's kernel in menu.lst was right but, the sections for all the other kernel were pointing > > to the Sarge root partition and not the Sid (they are the old kernel for Sid). > > > > Maybe the easiest solution is to backup menu.lst if there is an older one, and give > > a message to the user. > > Would be nice if I could add through the installer a new section for the choosen kernel in > > to menu.lst, without re-installing grub (this is the strength of grub). As I understand it, you told d-i to use anexisting partition of yours as /boot. This means that you adsked d-i to install on it; which means that you should expect files to be overwritten. I do not consider that a bug. If you can send me enough information about the old and new configuration of your systems, and the content of your old menu.lst, I can probably fix whatever bug resulted in non-working entires in the generated menu.lst. -- see shy jo
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