Bug#535239: grub-pc: Never asks debconf question about cmdline, doesn't take old values from menu.lst

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 01.07.2009, 02:32 +0200 schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20090629-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When upgrading from grub1 to grub-pc on this computer, I was not asked any
> questions about my linux command line. Also, grub-pc failed to copy over
> the rootfstype=ext4 parameter from /boot/grub/menu.lst which would have
> prevented my system from booting (thus filing it as important).
> 

Does this still happen?
>From the postinst I don't get it why it shouldn't asked you
if /boot/grub/menu.lst exists and debconf didn't already asked you the
question.
I just tested it and it worked fine for me.
Though dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc didn't asked again the question, I had
to purge the package for it.

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Felix Zielcke