Bug#618958: linux-base: Boot loader configuration not recognized

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 22:38 +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote:

>> The boot loader configuration for this system was not recognized. These
>> settings in the configuration may need to be updated:
[...]
> No, that's not what this message means.  It means that the script didn't
> find any installed boot loader at all!
>
> If you are using GRUB 2 then you should have the 'grub-common' package
> and a file called '/etc/default/grub' installed.  Is this not the case?

FWIW I ran into the same message today (on a machine tracking sid +
experimental that was last upgraded on 2011-01-31 before that).
I wish I had seen this report first so I could see what the state was
_before_ the upgrade; like Cesare, I am not able to trigger the
message again by running "dpkg-reconfigure linux-base".

The point being, here is another person willing to debug.  Hints welcome.

Regards,
Jonathan