Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:54:31 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing.
>
> Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update,
> my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the
> kernels I have in one Debian sysstem with the fie-system root I have in
> the other. I have to hand-edit menu.list to make things right again,
> using static boot stanzas in front of the AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST.
>
> (a) Is there any way I can stop this misbehaviour?
>
> (b) If I were to progress to grub2, where I gather I can't take control
> of the boot process by editing menu.lst, is there some other way of
> making sure things go right? I fear that one of these years, upgrading
> to grub2 will become inevitable.
It is inevitable now; well, desirable at least. Just do it! Most people
who have have used Grub 2 have never looked back. All this hand-editing
will become a thing of the past.
Debian has moved on. You are having problems with a legacy bootloader
and cannot expect to get the support you require for it.
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