tags 529363 - wontfix thanks Hi all,
this is a proposed patch to make grub-installer use grub-pc if bootfstype is ext4. For grub-of and grub-efi, I assume they can handle ext4 just as well as grub-pc since they are also built from grub2? This change just covers cases in which we would use GRUB Legacy but found ext4. Max
Index: grub-installer/debian/changelog =================================================================== --- grub-installer/debian/changelog (revision 58603) +++ grub-installer/debian/changelog (working copy) @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ grub-installer (1.38) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + [ Colin Watson ] * Make findfs use the last of any mounts found, in case there's more than one due to pilot error in the partitioner (LP: #289101). + [ Max Vozeler ] + * Use grub2 when ext4 is chosen (closes: #529363). + -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 13:08:03 +0100 grub-installer (1.37) unstable; urgency=low Index: grub-installer/grub-installer =================================================================== --- grub-installer/grub-installer (revision 58603) +++ grub-installer/grub-installer (working copy) @@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ grub_package="grub-pc" fi ;; + ext4:*:grub) + # We boot from ext4, requires grub2 + grub_package="grub-pc" + ;; *:*:grub) db_input low grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy || [ $? -eq 30 ] db_go || true