Proposal for updage-grub: Multi-Architecture

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:59:27PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose an improvement to update-grub (if at all
> possible): 
> 
> I just bought a new mainboard and a new CPU, an AMD Athlon64. 
> 
> Now I plan to do the following:
> 
> - One boot partition with both i386 and amd64 kernels, and two 
>   debian installations, one with 386 packages and one with amd64
>   packages. Separate partitions for both debian installations, shared
>   /boot with one grub menu.
> 
> 
> Now, obviously the 386 and the amd64 kernels need different arguments
> for root= (and maybe other options). 
> 
> Would be nice to have architecture-specific options in menu.lst to be
> appended by update-grub. 
> 
> The question is how to detect the kernel architecture of a given
> kernel file. Maybe the filename?

update-grub has become really bloated and it's going to be rewritten.  Please
don't spend your time trying to improve it (I suggest you wait for the next
version and then share your ideas with us).

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