Bug#505060: update-grub enters a xen entry for a non-xen kernel

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-47
> Severity: normal
>
>
> As can be seen by looking at menu.lst, update-grub generates Xen
> config sections even though Xen kernels are not currently present (I
> recently purged them).
>
> Currently installed kernels follow.
>
> orwell:/home/faheem# COLUMN=200 dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> ii  linux-image-2.6-vserve 2.6.26+16              Linux 2.6 image on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii  linux-image-2.6-vserve 2.6.26+16              Linux 2.6 image on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18-6-6 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch2  Linux 2.6.18 image
> on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18-6-v 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch2  Linux 2.6.18 image
> on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18.080 custom.1.0             Linux kernel binary
> image for version 2.6.18.080131
> ii  linux-image-2.6.26-1-v 2.6.26-8               Linux 2.6.26 image
> on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4, Linux-VServe
> ii  linux-image-2.6.26-1-v 2.6.26-8               Linux 2.6.26 image
> on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4, Linux-VServe
>
> Based on the following output, it seems possible that update-grub
> assumes that is should create a xen entry if xen is installed, even if
> the kernel has no xen support, which is just retarded.

Note; after removing all xen related packages, the offending xen
entries in menu.lst disappear, as expected.

                                                           Faheem.

> orwell:/home/faheem# update-grub
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found:
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
> Found Xen hypervisor 3.0.3-1-i386-pae,  kernel:
> /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-vserver-686
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18.080131
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-vserver-686
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem
> Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done