On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:26:21AM -0000, peter b wrote: > the other day karmic alpha install attempted on diff partitions ; > result, the two distros above experienced great problems at boot time > (due to karmic boot upgrade - grub2 the default)
I hope you've filed separate bugs about these? We need to maintain backward compatibility. > - will karmic and presumably the releases that follow offer the user a > choice at install time (boot upgrade/update) to leave the already > installed and working grub legacy untouched and just create grub.conf > for the new (to be installed) release ? We won't be upgrading anyone automatically to GRUB 2 in Karmic; it'll only be for fresh installs. We have yet to decide what to do for subsequent releases. I would appreciate it if every bug on grub2 didn't turn into a philosophical discussion. :-) This bug is about a single technical fault, not general upgrade matters. -- 'grub2' does not carry over correct 'timeout' time from 'grub' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
