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Bug#571662: linux-base: mishandles /boot/grub/menu.lst



Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: linux-base
> Version: 2.6.33-1~experimental.1+r15282
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the /dev/sdX to UUID= messes up /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> * the file header (everthing before ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST is
>   lost (timeout, color, default, ... are lost, would be more critical
>   with console on serial port)
> * instead all old settings in magic comments in the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS
>   LIST are inserted as comments at the beginning of the file
> * update-grub interprets some of these comments, e.g. altoptions which
>   are appended to the settings in AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST, causing
>   exploding number of kernels each time update-grub is called

Thanks for testing this, and sorry that it didn't work properly.  I
asked the GRUB maintainers to test the transition script but apparently
they never did.  I will try to get this fixed over the weekend.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because
they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

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