Re: 2.6.18 problems with grub and ACPI

[Franklin PIAT <fpiat@bigfoot.com>]

Hello,

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 21:11 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:53:20AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> > Richard Lyons wrote:
> > > I am frequently tempted to go back to lilo.  IIRC, lilo always found the
> > > right information including windows partition -- which grub doesn't know
> > > about, so you always have to add that by hand.  Not that I boot 'doze
> > > more often than once a year...
> > 
> > The Debian Etch version of the debian-installer will detect ms-windows
> > partitions and automatically add them to the grub menu.lst file.  So
> > in theory it shouldn't be necessary to add them by hand anymore.
> 
> Ah, that is useful. But only if you are installing from scratch.
> 
> More often, one is merely upgrading a kernel, or worse, as in my case, 
> replacing grub after it was removed by an errant aptitude kernel
> install.  So I suppose we should be asking for the same capabilities
> that the debian installer has to be added to update-grub.

I'm really surprised that _installing_ a kernel actually removed, *and*
*purged* another package.

Do you still have you /var/log/dpkg.log, so I can investigate and file
bug where appropriate ?


Also, I'm surprised you are using 2.6.17, since it wasn't in any stable
release (neither in Sarge or Etch). What release do you use ?


Thanks,

Franklin