Re: Grub 1.5 error after update
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:04 -0400
Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
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> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:21:16 +0200
> Ole Toft Jensen <ole@24gold.dk> wrote:
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> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:58:51PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote:
> > > > Frank wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200
> > > >> "thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > >> Obviously grub-pc is not ready for primetime yet. On the update it
> > > >>> did on my machine, it failed to pick up the Ubuntu installation on
> > > >>> another partition. How did it get migrated to Squeeze ?
> > > >>>
> > > >> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's
> > > >> "recommended" but not automatically installed.
> > > >
> > > > Does that mean maintainers assume you only have one installation ?
> > >
> > > I can't read their minds, but it sure seems that installing os-prober as
> > > a dependency would do no harm to "single-booting" systems, and would
> > > save some trouble to "multi-booting" users. Maybe there's already a
> > > "whishlist" bug opened about it ?
> > >
> > The default behavior of aptitude and apt-get these days at least in sid
> > and testing is to install Recommends automatically, so the user must
> > have made a concious choice not to install os-prober or not to install
> > Recommends packages by default.
> >
>
> The "user" did not make a "conscious" choice not to install it - I (the
> "user") was never offered a choice to install or not to install.
> If it's the default behavior of aptitude to install recommends then something
> else must have happened. It wouldn't be the first time.
Just checked with Aptitude and the install recommends is checked in the config.
The "remove unused packages automatically" is NOT checked ( it would cancel the install
recommends )
Besides, the fact the second installation wasn't picked up was a minor inconvience..
the major problem was my unbootable computer after the installation.
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