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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Wolfgang Scheicher <worf AT sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org, Chris Brien <christopher_brien AT hotmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] lilo / grub and linux spell - help / advice needed
  • Date: 25 Nov 2002 14:41:54 -0500

You could pass the responsibility off to the lilo and grub maintainers.
Have the bootloader add a trigger which runs a bootloader updater script
whenever linux is cast.

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 07:06, Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
> I guess everyone allready knows how i messed up the kernel spell after i
> took
> the section this summer. And feedback was positive.
>
> but:
>
> I didn't touch yet the script that updates the bootloader.
> (i did analyse it a bit, but didin't modify it)
>
> it now seems that i cannot ignore that any longer:
>
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1719
>
> zero: did you do something about #1403?
>
> all of you:
> anyone who could help me with the bootloaders?
>
> i lack knowledge of lilo and grub and bash to fully understand the existing
> script - i think i need to know exactely what the script should do to
> understand how it works and to find out what i need to change.
>
> i apologize for the lack of time i had in the past weeks - maybe someone
> can
> assist me in my section a bit?
>
> Regardless of i get help or do it on my own: i'd like to start a discussion
> about how the lilo.conf or config of other bootloaders shall be modifyed.
> shall there be a new entry for every new kernel version?
> what should happen when? what do you want? give me suggestions!
>
> Worf
>
>
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