Bug#554683: grub-pc: Build list of kernels at boot time

[Stefan Monnier]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: wishlist

I find that GRUB2's install is more fragile than GRUB1: I've had my disk
become unbootable (not even booting into GRUB2) with GRUB2 twice already
(still not sure how/why it happened), whereas it never happened with
GRUB1.  So I think we should aim for GRUB2's install to be something you
do once and never touch again.

A really nice way to reach this goal is to use GRUB2's advanced scripting
functionality, which would allow us to search&list all kernels at
boot time, making "update-grub" completely unnecessary.


	Stefan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.28       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-25       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0024       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem