Bug#377705: update-grub should not cater for non-Debian-packaged kernels

[Dave Page]

Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
Severity: wishlist


This wishlist bug is possibly the opposite of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343076 ; in my case,
it's caused by Xen kernels, but it's not actually Xen-specific.

I feel that update-grub should not attempt to generate automatic
menu.list stanzas for non-Debian-packaged kernels. If I've installed a
kernel outside of APT's purview, then I've taken care of how to boot
it. I've had problems with systems failing to boot due to incorrect
stanzas being generated by update-grub for third-party kernels (such as
the Xen-installed ones) which then fail to boot and lead to tricky
phone support problems for me.

I suggest that update-grub should perhaps look through the contents of
installed kernel-image (or linux-image etc.) packages for kernels rather
than just examining the filesystem. If this is a configurable option,
then this more conservative behaviour should be the default.

Dave
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5           5.4-4              Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information