Bug#524010: upgrading kernel makes system unbootable, because of invalid grub entries

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 12:09 +0200 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:

> Is it grub's feature or are they "helper comments" used by Debian tools?

It's just used by the update-grub script which generates/updates
menu.lst.

> Either way, I don't think it should touch old/existing entries; there 
> can be multiple different "root=" definitions in menu.lst file.

Well as the examples above the kopt= line says you can use
kopt_kernel_version, fo example kopt_2_6_26= to set a different root
value for a kernel.

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Felix Zielcke