On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:31:32AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > dpkg does not prevent multiple boot loaders from being installed > concurrently; but this environment is not supported by the various > system maintainer scripts of Debian, even today. For example, > "update-initramfs -u" currently checks to see if lilo is installed, > and if it is, it runs lilo. But if grub (either version 1 or version > 2) is installed also, it issues the following messages: > > WARNING: grub and lilo installed. > Please de-install unused bootloader. > > It could also test for other boot loaders as well, such as extlinux, > but it doesn't. The point is that Debian's maintainer scripts > do not support multiple concurrently-installed boot loaders even today. >
It did support it, but it turned out to be a greater pain to keep that then to kick that support, see cc33aa5bfb7f68793 in initramfs-tools git repo for the support that was there until lenny. bug #574553 axed it. support was fragile and thus I don't plan to reinstate that. extlinux is quite new in debian. the usual case were people having "upgraded" from lilo to grub but didn't change the do_bootloader setting in /etc/kernel-img.conf, because they didn't knew it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100630143154.gn9...@baikonur.stro.at
