On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:04:36AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:15:24PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:15:33PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > >Running grub-install will wipe the grub1 install and leave me
> > > >with grub2, right? Is that more likely to work than the existing
> > > >chainloading grub2 from grub1 approach?
> > >
> > > Yes, grub-install will replace grub-legacy with grub2. I don't
> > > know if that works better then chainloading. If you have a rescue
> > > CD or such so you can recover grub-legacy to get a bootable system
> > > again, then you can try it out.
> >
> > > >I can try an "aptitude purge; rm /boot/grub/*.{mod,img}; aptitude
> > > >install grub-pc" tonight and let you know if that's any better.
> > >
> > > I just checked postinst calls grub-install /bin/true if
> > > chainloading is used But only if there wasn't already a
> > > /boot/grub/core.img So to be on the safe side, please do that.
> >
> > Ok. I bit the bullet, purged, deleted, installed and did a full
> > grub-install rather than just chainloading. And it all seems to work
> > fine; root is set to (md0) and the system loads the graphical menu
> > by default rather than dropping to the rescue shell.
>
> Nice. So I assume this bug can be closed.
Felix had already done so after my mail and I'm happy with that; if I
see the problem again I can re-open it but as my machine is now booting
without intervention it all seems fine to me now.
J.
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