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-rw-r--r--debian/changelog2
-rw-r--r--en/appendix/preseed.xml5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2718fef2d..0c2406991 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ installation-guide (2009xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if
partman-auto/method is not set.
+ * Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to
+ switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen.
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index 2dcabcd15..1ec02948a 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -1416,6 +1416,11 @@ to be used easily on the kernel command line as well.
# too:
#d-i lilo-installer/skip boolean true
+# With a few exceptions for unusual partitioning setups, GRUB 2 is now the
+# default. If you need GRUB Legacy for some particular reason, then
+# uncomment this:
+#d-i grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy boolean false
+
# This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR
# if no other operating system is detected on the machine.
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true