Re: Uploaded pv-grub-menu to NEW.
On 11 August 2013 08:13, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I just uploaded pv-grub-menu to the NEW queue. This package borrows from the
> grub-legacy package the scripts to create and manage the file
> /boot/grub/menu.lst. Here are its description and the contents of
> README.Debian.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Description: Creates a menu.lst file for PV-GRUB
>
> PV-GRUB is a utility of the vitualisation platform Xen, to boot virtual
> machines with their own kernel. This package maintains a configuration file in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst, that is read by PV-GRUB. It does nothing else, which
> means that it is not suitable for booting non-virtual systems.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> At its installation, this package runs 'update-menu-lst' to create a 'menu.lst'
> file in '/boot/grub/' in order to make the system bootable by PV-GRUB. It also
> runs 'update-menu-lst' each time a kernel package is installed or removed.
>
> 'update-menu-lst' is derived from 'update-grub' in the grub-legacy package and
> has some options in common, in particular 'groot' and 'kopt' that can be edited
> in '/boot/grub/menu.lst' and applied by running 'update-menu-lst' again. See
> the manual page update-menu-lst(8) for details.
>
> This package does not contain GRUB and does not modify the master boot record.
> Install grub-pc or one of the other GRUB 2 binary packages if you need this.
>
> This package conflicts with grub-legacy as both packages modify
> '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. Systems where grub-legacy is installed do not need
> pv-grub-menu.
>
> This package is for systems where GRUB can not or should not be installed, but
> that need an up-to-date '/boot/grub/menu.lst' file. It provides and conflicts
> with Ubuntu's grub-legacy-ec2 package, that it aims to replace.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It source is managed with Git in Alioth's collab-maint project.
>
> Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pv-grub-menu.git
> Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pv-grub-menu.git
>
> People are welcome to contribute or even to take over.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>
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Nicely done! So I wont need my custom grub script any longer, right?
(https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud/blob/master/grub.d/40_custom)
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