URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39154>
Summary: Generated grub.cfg contains kernels that lack
modules directory
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: aababilov
Submitted on: Mon 03 Jun 2013 04:58:49 PM GMT
Category: Configuration
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Feature Request
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: aababilov
Originator Email: [email protected]
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: Bazaar - trunk
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Consider a computer with several GNU/Linux distros. It has one boot partition
that contains all kernels and initrds and one partition for each distro.
grub2-mkconfig generates a config that allows _every_ available kernel to boot
with the main distro. This is usually undesired since different kernels belong
to different distros.
A simple check whether this kernel belongs to a distro can be verifying its
/lib/modules/$version directory.
Example. We run Debian (vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64) and Gentoo
(vmlinuz-3.8.13-gentoo-05.23). If Gentoo is the main distro, grub2-mkconfig
will allow it to boot with vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64. This boot will fail since
vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 requires a lot of kernel modules.
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File Attachments:
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Date: Mon 03 Jun 2013 04:58:49 PM GMT Name: ensure-kernel-modules.patch
Size: 1kB By: aababilov
A proposed patch
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=28243>
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