Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/8/18 Felix Zielcke <address@hidden>:
> Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 13:58 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
>> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:44 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 21:09 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
>> > > Quoting Felix Zielcke <address@hidden>:
>> > >
>> > > >> So you would prefer something like the attached patch?
>> > > >> Though then we'll need to tell people to explicit enable gfxterm.
>> > > >
>> > > > Pavel? Seems like you missed my mail.
>> > >
>> > > No, it's still in my INBOX.  The patch looks reasonable, but I didn't
>> > > have a chance to test it yet.
>> > >
>> >
>> > So what do we do know with this?
>> > If we're going to make gfxterm not the default then I think it would be
>> > good to have this changed before 1.97 is released.
>>
>> You are right.
>>
>> I have applied your patch, as there were no objections.  Sorry that it
>> took so long.
>>
>
> No problem. Thanks for directly commiting it.
> Now I only need to talk with Robert how we deal with this change in
> Debian now, so we don't get many complaints :)

Just add the option into the defaults file on i386 and amd64.

Should be easy to check and fix up when building the package.

The package upgrade should offer the option to update the config. At
worst the users will see console only if they refuse the update.

Thanks

Michal