need some mechanism to support /boot/grub/menu.lst and pv-grub
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cloud-init (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
| grub (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
|||
| grub (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Currently (12.04 and quantal at the moment) cloud-init creates a binary package called grub-legacy-ec2. The purpose of grub-legacy-ec2 is really to
* support use of pv-grub, a xen paravirtualied bootloader, which reads a grub 0.97 style /boot/grub/menu.lst file
* install along side of grub-pc. The Ubuntu cloud-images that run on xen are identical at the filesystem level to those that run on kvm. Having 2 images, or having the user need to install a specific package based on hypervisor is not desirable.
the grub-legacy-ec2 package basically represents a copy of grub (0.97)'s update-grub code and required dependencies. As that is the code that updates /boot/grub/
So, this bug is a request to remove that function from cloud-init and either put it into the grub package instead.
| affects: | grub2 (Ubuntu) → grub (Ubuntu) |
| Scott Moser (smoser) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in grub (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in grub (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in grub (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Changed in grub (Debian): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Long term, this would be a better path as the maintenance of menu.lst does not really make sense in cloud-init, and debian has packaged cloud-init without the grub-legacy-ec2 code.
Also, note in debian bug http://