On 10/13/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I see that building a kernel ends with checking for "update-grub", which > I > > don't have. Should I? Where does it come from? > > I don't know. I see that message too. Every single time. And so far I have > had > no problems caused by the lack of it. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > From: http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz NAME update-grub - program to generate GRUB's menu.lst file SYNOPSIS * update-grub* DESCRIPTION *update-grub* is a program used to generate the * menu.lst* file used by the grub bootloader. It works by looking in */boot*for all files which start with " *vmlinuz-*". They will be treated as kernels, and grub menu entries will be created for each. It will also create the initial *menu.lst* if none exists, after prompting the user. It will also add initrd lines for ramdisk images found with the same version as kernels found. e.g. /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 and /boot/initrd-2.4.5 will cause a line of "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5 or simliar to be added for the kernel entry in the menu.lst.
----- And no, you don't need it. Writing and maintaining your own menu.lst ( grub.conf) works just fine. -- - Mark Shields
