Bug#341897: grub: update-grub has stopped finding kernels not in /boot

[Julian Gilbey]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:50:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:14:00PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Package: grub
> > Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
> > Severity: serious
> 
> > Last time I used update-grub (a while ago, Jan 2005, I think!), it
> > automagically added these entries at the end (the repetitiveness I can
> > cope with, although it was buggy!)
> 
> Before or after the line
> 
>  ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> 
> ?

Weird - my old menu.lst didn't have such a line.  I've added the new
boot options after this line in my new version.

> The update-grub manpage makes no mention of managing boot options for
> kernels or OSes located outside of /boot, and I can't remember a version
> that did so.  At least the second half of your cited entries were clearly
> added by debian-installer, not by update-grub; update-grub's only
> responsibilities in this case are to *not* attempt to manage entries located
> below the 'END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST' line.  And I can confirm that
> the current version of update-grub still behaves as expected on my system.

OK; you can close this report if you want to, then.

   Julian