Bug#397016: adding rescue boot menu entry for backup initramfs

maximilian attems maks at sternwelten.at
Sat Nov 4 13:55:26 CET 2006


Package: grub
Version: 0.97-18
Severity: important

latest initramfs-tools backups the booted initramfs in ${initrd}.bak
it would be even cooler if update-grub would take care to add an
rescue entry for the user, as the user might not be aware that in
the case of an b0rked initramfs there is an backup at his disposition.

kernel-package got updated to remove it on linux-image purge.
thanks for considering a fix even now in freeze time.

ls /boot/*bak
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-686.bak  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-1-686.bak



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information




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