[Bug 324498] [NEW] update-grub irregularities when using grub-pc

[Matt LaPlante]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: grub-pc

After switching to grub-pc in intrepid, I've noticed some irregularities
in the behavior of update-grub:

1- It does not seem to respect the default (non-named) images.  Event
though /boot/vmlinuz exists, update-grub no longer includes it in
grub.cfg.  update-grub in the old grub package always included these in
menu.lst, and it made it much easier to have updates boot themselves by
default.

2- It does not order kernels logically.  The new grub.cfg tends to order the kernels as follows:
vmlinuz-2.6.28-v20
vmlinuz-2.6.28.3-v20
vmlinuz-2.6.28.2-v20
vmlinuz-2.6.27.8-v20

If these were to be put in order of release, we can see that grub is
ordering them 2,4,3,1.  The oldest image is at the bottom, but the next
oldest (the next major version) lands at the top, with the two sub-
versions of the latter major version in between.  It's clearly not
counting the base version without a sub-version in the proper descending
order.

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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update-grub irregularities when using grub-pc
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