Re: What is the recommended way to upgrade from grub-legacy to grub2
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:47:12 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 11 Jul 2011 at 14:37:37 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> Now I never actually did this upgrade, just kept updating testing every
>> few weeks, until testing got to be squeeze. What do I do now to do
>> this upgrade, and get this safe chain-load option? Just install grub2
>> using aptitude? Or does the lenny->squeeze upgrade do something
>> sneakier?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-
upgrading.en.html#update-grub
Thanks.
I had found that paragraph, but it didn't say what to do if you were
already running squeeze. Just that you'd be given that option if you
were doing a wholesale upgrade from oldstable lenny to stable squeeze. I
never got that option in the year or two I was doing incremental updates
on testing. I had gotten an option to install grub 2 about a year and a
half ago, but that was before they offered chainloading from grub 1 to
grub 2. Given all the problems with unbootable systems being reported at
that time, I declined. The chainloading that's available now seems to be
the safe one.
-- hendrik
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