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Re: Uploaded grub 0.5.96 (source i386) to master



On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:54:29PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
> > What exactly do you want? kernel-image needs to call lilo because lilo stores
> > a blocklist of the kernel image file. Grub parses the file system format and
> > doesn't need this special setup.
> > 
> > Setting up grub for Debian is a one time thing, and you can do it in the
> > default menu file that comes with the Debian package. There is no need for a
> > special step after installing a new kernel.
> 
> Perhaps the problem is updating the following line, which doesn't
> happen automatically:
> 
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15

Ah, understood. Of course, I have (hd0,0)/vmlinuz, which btw breaks if boot
is a seperate partition.

Adding menu entries with specific kernel versions is a good idea.

Marcus

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