Comment 53 for bug 202009

Ok It seems to me that this is irrelevant at this point as all new
releases of Ubuntu will use grub2. It's a pain in the ass, but it is
what is. "Make a change and call it progress" All I want a boot loader
to do is load the OS I want and the latest kernels and then leave me
alone. But the developers are doing this for free so who am I to complain!

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:44:57AM -0000, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
>
>> Same thing after upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic. Update-grub fails to
>> update menu.lst after I chose to keep my version of menu.lst during the
>> upgrade.
>>
>
> If you chose to keep your version of menu.lst, this is not a "failure".
> It's doing what you told it to.
>
> The bug here is that currently, it's very hard to go back and change your
> mind after telling update-grub to do this; but you only see this prompt in
> the first place because you're working against update-grub by not using its
> kernel stanza autogeneration support. If you set your variables where
> update-grub looks for them, there's no reason for you to get a conflict at
> all.
>
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