Re: problem installing grub-legacy

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:25:34 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote:
>
> Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now 
> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
> legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with 
> version 2 only.

I don't mean to make light of your problem, but this reminds me of an
old bath soap commercial.  Many years ago, Dial soap had an advertising
slogan that went like this:

   Aren't you glad you use Dial?  Don't you wish everybody did?

s/Dial/lilo/

No doubt my friends and acquaintances on this list will accuse me of
having a lilo "fixation", but this opportunity was too good to pass up.

But seriously, it's obvious that somebody messed up with the package
dependencies.  There's not much point in having a grub-legacy package
if it can't be installed, now is there?  As I see it, you have the
following options:

(1) Force grub-legacy to be installed with overrides to the package
management system, leaving you with a "broken" package management
system.

(2) Live with grub-pc until somebody gets their act together and fixes
this problem, or

(3) Forget the whole ugly grub mess and switch to lilo.

I know what I would do, but it's your call.

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