Bug#514799: release-notes: check grub's hooks in /etc/kernel-img.conf before upgrade
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
After upgrading from sarge to etch, users were invited to manually
update some entries in /etc/kernel-img.conf (specifically, the
postinst_hook and postrm_hook) as described
in etch's /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/NEWS.Debian.
However, this was not totally obvious, and because the compatibility
wrapper ensured that everything worked, I imagine there are quite a few
systems where this was not done.
It seems possible that such systems would break after the upgrade to lenny
(although I haven't tested this). If it is known that they will not break,
then please close this bug! (and accept my apologies).
Otherwise, it might be helpful to add something like the following to the
release notes, possibly at 4.1.1.2 (straight after 4.1.1.1 makes sure that
you are on a suitable kernel) or 4.1.6 (straight after LILO issues).
4.1.1.2 Check grub's kernel installation hooks
If you use GRUB as bootloader and previously upgraded to etch from an older
release of debian, please verify that the hooks in /etc/kernel-img.conf have
been updated from /sbin/update-grub to /usr/sbin/update-grub. The older path
will cease to work after the upgrade to lenny. For more details, see
/usr/share/doc/grub-doc/NEWS.Debian from the grub-doc package.
I hope this helps! Best wishes and thanks for all your work on debian...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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