Bug#422794: Starting is impossible

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Tue May 8 20:22:43 UTC 2007


Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:

>> Please do not perform update-grub compulsorily by postinst. It is very 
>> unpleasant to overwrite grub.cfg freely.
>
> I suppose it doesn't harm to add an option to disable it; perhaps we could
> even reuse /etc/kernel-img.conf.  Could you file a separate bug for this?

IMO, /etc/defaults/grub looks like a better place for this setting. We
can source it and check for:

if [ "x$AUTORUN_UPDATE_GRUB" = "xyes" ]; then
    ...
fi

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