Bug#672104: Proposal to add function to generate a menu.lst file in grub2, based on Ubuntu's grub-legacy-ec2 package.

[Charles Plessy]

Package: grub2
Severity: wishlist

Dear GRUB2 maintainers,

Some systems booted by PV-Grub need a menu.lst file like the one created
by grub1, but without GRUB itself.  Such systems include computer cloud
systems like Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud.

In Ubuntu, there is a package, called grub-legacy-ec2, that provides kernel
hooks and and update script to maintain the menu.lst file when kernels are
changed.

Given that in some cases one may want to co-install grub-legacy-ec2 and grub-pc,
it would be useful to let these packages share their configuration and helper
scripts, such as grub-set-default.

Would you be interested to maintain the contents of the current grub-legacy-ec2
package of Ubuntu, or a similar code to generate menu.lst files, within the
grub2 package ?  I of course offer my help to take care of it.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan