Migrating to Grub2 deletes kernel automagic updates and other settings
- From: Klistvud <quotations@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:54:56 +0100
Howdie, fellow Debianites!
I've just tried to install Grub2 to my spare Lenny installation. I am
baffled (not to say disappointed) by the results:
1. -- kernel automagic configuration hasn't been copied over from the
legacy menu.lst to the new grub.cfg
2. -- chainloader stanzas from the old menu.lst are likewise lost
3. -- the command upgrade-from-grub-legacy installs the new boot loader
into the MBR, not letting you select a partition instead of the MBR
(overwriting any custom MBR you may have). Admittedly, this is only a
minor nuisance, but a nuisance still.
4. -- it didn't pick up the right partitions of my installed systems,
so I had to manually edit grub.cfg, changing various "set root=(hd0,1)"
into "set root=(hd0,2)" and the like. And this was on a pretty simple
setup: only a single hard drive, with just four primary partitions
(Swap, Lenny, LennySpare, and Home).
Luckily, I did this on my "LennySpare" installation, which I use for
testing stuff and such ...
My question is: will Lenny still be able to update its list of kernels
automagically with all its "automagic" gone?
Less importantly: couldn't the Grub installer be made to at least copy
your existing chainloading stanzas over to grub.cfg? Isn't that a
totally trivial thing to do, even for such a "work in progress" as the
Grub2 project currently is?
--
Regards,
Klistvud
Certifiable Loonix User #481801
http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com
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