Bug 53750

Summary:	installkernel doesn't know about grub!
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	lars
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description lars 2001-09-17 19:19:11 UTC

Description of Problem:

/sbin/installkernel doesn't know about grub.  If a user happens to have the
 "lilo" binary installed and types "make install" in a kernel source tree,
they risk replacing grub with lilo.  If they have an old but syntactically
correct lilo.conf, they could render themselves unbootable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.4.7-2

How Reproducible:

cat /sbin/installkernel

Additional Information:

Maybe there should be a file in /etc/sysconfig that indicates whether the
user is using lilo or grub as the main bootloader?

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2002-05-21 22:25:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53557 ***