Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB
"Sridhar M.A." wrote
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:24:35AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:26, Mauro Darida wrote:
> > > Some questions on coming Sarge release:
> > > 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it?
> >
> > Yes. When you compile a kernel it updates grub's menu.lst automatically.
> >
> Is it? On my machine, it has not done that. I use make-kpkg to build my
> own kernels. It has never touched my /boot/grub/menus.lst for putting
> any entry.
>
Its not actually during compilation, but when you install the kernel. Here is the screen output of dpkg installing a new kernel:
thinkpad:/usr/src# dpkg -i
kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119_custom.1.00_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package
kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119.
(Reading database ... 60780 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119 (from
kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119_custom.1.00_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119 (custom.1.00) ...
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found:
/boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-ndis-20041119
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-20041119-ndis
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
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