GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 15:59:48 UTC 2009


On Thursday, June 11 2009, Michael Schwendt said:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:17:07 -0400, Jeremy wrote:
> > [1] So, the gory history for those who might be interested.  Eight years
> > ago (!), we decided that the advantage of not having to rerun lilo after
> > changing the config file as you can just read the config file off the
> > filesystem with grub was worthwhile.
> 
> Why is GRUB reinstalled with every kernel update then?

It's not.  grubby is run, but that's just a tool that modifies your
grub.conf to reflect the new kernel that's been installed

Jeremy




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