Bug 181952

Summary:	menu.lst is being hacked via each distro's commerical
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Darwin H. Webb <thethirddoorontheleft>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	5	CC:	sundaram
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Description Darwin H. Webb 2006-02-17 21:58:35 UTC

Description of problem:
menu.lst is changed by each disto and causes errors and confusion for other
disto boot ups.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
.95, .97

How reproducible:
Whenever

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
color changes, format changes, ESC key, timer, splash screens garbled, no boot
to non-default

Expected results:
a black and white lsit of my system installations with timer clicking down, the
"press ESC key' message during grub load at the bottom of screen as if it were
part of the boot up process and not the disto.

Additional info:

Comment 3 Peter Jones 2006-02-24 04:59:51 UTC

Really, this could only be a problem if you're sharing /boot between more than
one distro or installation, and that will simply not *ever* work reliably. 
Don't do that.

Comment 4 Darwin H. Webb 2006-02-27 18:16:51 UTC

The boot processes are not shared, but grub must share the menu at some point,
wheather it be all titles on one menu or chained. Just don't screw with the menu
as if your distro is the onnly one that owns the grub menu.

Darwin