Bug#302276: update-grub does not use fallback

BUCHMULLER Norbert norbi at nix.hu
Sat Oct 7 09:41:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:06:42 -0300
Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> Once it's add to grub2 we can start to provide backports to grub2 to
> etch so it won't be so bad to you ;-)

Hi,

I'm afraid you got it wrong. :-) I meant that 'grub2' is considered to be
in an experimental phase, not that it is only available in 'experimental'
(it is in 'testing'). A quote from the package description of the 'grub2'
package currently in 'testing' (1.94+20060926-1):

"This package contains EXPERIMENTAL software which hasn't been properly
tested and doesn't have all the expected features. For a stable and usable
bootloader look at GRUB instead."

If I accept this description to be right, I won't entrust it to load my
production systems.. So I still have to use the 'grub' package, and either
manually (or with some small script) edit the generated menu.lst files, or
modify the your official 'grub' package, and use that.


norbi




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