Re: 2.6.18 problems with grub and ACPI
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.
--
richard
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