[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#816196: extlinux should be replaced by grub2

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: openstack-debian-images
Version: 1.3~deb8u1
Severity: normal

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Hi Thomas!

Using extlinux is a bit a pain. First, when installing a new kernel,
there is no new entry created in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf for this
kernel.

Moreover, modifying this file seems to have no effect on
extlinux. Running "extlinux --update /", "extlinux --update /boot"
doesn't change anything. Running "extlinux --update /boot/extlinux"
will break the boot with "Loading boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 failed:
No such file or directory" (in a tight loop, the machine is just lost
at this point). I didn't try to use "/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64"
instead of "boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64".

It would be quite easier (for the user, maybe not for you) if grub2
was used instead.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental-debug'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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