Charles wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:47:48 +0100 > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > [snip...] > > > > Well as I said in earlier mail, the Supergrub disk saved my...err..bacon. > It allowed me to reinstall Grub, then I purged Grub-pc (grub2) and was > back in business. > 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. > My understanding is if the initial reboot goes well, then you pick the chain > option > and that's supposed to finish up the install. Instead what it did was finish > my > boot process:)
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. 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... 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. I am using grub2 since Lenny was testing, now on three squeeze, and three Ubuntu, no problem here. Just got lucky maybe. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
