Re: Patch: Support for grub at installation time

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Date: Sun Dec 23 2001 - 10:15:18 EST

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In article <3C25ECBF.AF0E819C@Synopsys.COM> you wrote:
> Below you can find a tiny patch to add 2 new targets to the top level
> Makefile: bzgrub and zgrub. This is a suggestion about how the Grub
> boot loader could be supported.

Please provide a grub-specific /sbin/installkernel instead.
The lilo targets should die aswell, IMHO.

> It would be nice if you could consider this patch to be included in
> one of the future kernels. I am not the kernel patch specialist, so
> please excuse if I missed to follow a specific procedure.

No. The kernel build process shouldn't know at all about boot loaders.

Christoph (a happy grub user)

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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