Bug#423393: Bug#423268: grub-pc: system unbootable when /boot and separate partion, doesnt detect other installed OSes.

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:07:11AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> > Secondly it doesnt detect the existence of other OSes in the case of a dual
> >> > boot system. Causing those OSes to be unbootable.
> >> 
> >> I'm cloning this bug to deal with each issues separated.
> >
> > This is theoreticaly done by grub-installer.  It just happens that since
> > our update-grub change, it doesn't know the new way to do it, and still
> > writes its stuff to /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
> 
> I think this user _upgraded_ the package and then it wasn't handled by
> d-i anymore.

What I mean is that the important is getting d-i to support this.  For
supporting non-Debian OSes in upgrades, I think it's best to add a note so
that user does it manualy or something.  If we try to convert them, I'm sure
we'll find lots of bugs in the conversion code :-/

> > We still could try to add some migration code though.  Or maybe an explanatory
> > note?
> 
> I think it might be better otherwise people will start to hate us ;-)

Yeah.. hehe.  Do you think a note is enough?

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