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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: harri@synopsys.COM (Harald Dunkel)
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Subject: Re: Patch: Support for grub at installation time
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In article <3C25ECBF.AF0E819C@Synopsys.COM> you wrote:
> Below you can find a tiny patch to add 2 new targets to the top level 
> Makefile: bzgrub and zgrub. This is a suggestion about how the Grub 
> boot loader could be supported.

Please provide a grub-specific /sbin/installkernel instead.
The lilo targets should die aswell, IMHO.

> It would be nice if you could consider this patch to be included in 
> one of the future kernels. I am not the kernel patch specialist, so 
> please excuse if I missed to follow a specific procedure.

No.  The kernel build process shouldn't know at all about boot loaders.

	Christoph (a happy grub user)

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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