On Tuesday 02 February 2010 11:59:31 Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > > One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), > > > chroot into Debian and revert grub to an earlier version. > > > > As has been addressed in other recent posts, downgrading a package > > to a previous version once a newer version has been installed > > is unsupported and often difficult. > > In general I agree with you, but in this case it should be fairly > trivial since very little depends on grub, and the dependencies between > the versions haven't changed, to purge the current version and install > an earlier one. I know, for example that 1.98~20100126-1 still works. Usually a purge followed by a re-install will work as a substitute of a direct downgrade. Some packages (e.g. DMBSes) may leave traces behind even after a purge, so this route is not a guaranteed success. Of course, if anything depends on the package you are trying to downgrade, just preforming the purge can become tricky. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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