FAI Installation, Ubuntu and problems with menu.lst generation

[Stephan Hermann]

Dear Colleagues,

if you try to install ubuntus grub, better to say, its menu.lst, using
the example way of FAI, you run into serious problems.

menu.lst will be copied to /boot/grub/menu.lst but the update-grub call
(even $ROOTCMDed) doesn't update the copied menu.lst with the kernel
list.

This problem occurs because Ubuntu uses UCF inside his update-grub
script.

So, there are two possibilies:

1. Rely on your self made menu.lst and forget about update-grub, even
when updating your kernels
2. or let ubuntu create your menu.lst correctly, and be safe while and
after kernel upgrades.

I wrote a small example how to get point 2 running, you can find this
documentation on the faiwiki under
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAIUbuntuGrubProblems

Hope it helps,

\sh

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