Re: Grub 1.5 error after update
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200
"thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I still fail to understand what went wrong. After the installation and
> > reboot which went OK, I picked the chain option and that's when it all
> > went downhill.
>
> The chaining from grub-legacy menu to grub2 is just supposed to enable
> testing of the grub2 install, it doesn't install anything. One has to
> run "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" as root to finish the process, or simply
> properly install grub2 in the mbr, and create the config.
Sorry, but I did run "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" after the chaining boot
went well.
> If the boot process failed with the chainloading from grub-legacy, it
> means that it would not have been a good idea to finish the process
> anyway...
The process didn't fail...which is why I ran the upgrade script.
>
> 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 am using grub2 since
> Lenny was testing, now on three squeeze, and three Ubuntu, no problem
> here. Just got lucky maybe.
Lucky is right - google problems with Grub2.
Don't get me wrong - it **seems** Grub2 will be an improvement over its
predecessor but, at least in my case and it seems many others it's not quite ready.
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