From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > PS. Danny! > > I haven't checked how your kernel is doing this, but since it's an > > stable 2.4 kernel, the problem isn't that big, OTOH it's a > > contrib kernel, so I think the MDK people would like it better > > if you to would be doing this ... > > (I added the same to my kernels beginning with 2.4.22-1.tmb.1mdk), > > Sorry I forgot to mention this to you in my earlier mail... > > > But if a user installs a new kernel, that kernel should be their new > default? IMHO, there is a problem with installkernel's logic, it should be > making versioned bootloader entries for the previous default kernel, not > the new one, which would ensure that on the first kernel installed after > installation of the distro, the user wouldn't lose access to their > original kernel (this assuming installkernel hasn't changed that much > since it was in initscripts). >
That's my opinion too, but if IRC there was a discussion earlier on this same topic, wich pretty much ended up in an "someone at mdk didn't like the idea..., so it got rejected..." Maybe I'll have to provide a alternate bootloader-utils on my homepage, that does it the other way around so people can try it out... and if they like it maybe mdk will pick it up... Thomas
