On 3/6/11, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:41 AM, George <pinkisntw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Something unfortunate happened: I removed grub-pc and installed >> grub-legacy, but my computer still boots using grub 1.97! It seems to >> work fine now, but I don't like the fact that grub and grub-pc show up >> as "not installed" in aptitude, grub-legacy shows up as "installed", >> but my computer is booting with 1.97. What's going on here? Is it >> possible that grub 1.97 was installed in the MBR? > > Use > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ > to try to find out what's going. > I wasn't able to run the script because my system was missing some programs.
However, I investigated further and saw that the package grub-common was still installed. It had version number 1.9x, so in a fit of near-frustration I uninstalled grub-legacy and installed grub-pc again, and now my system appears to be working perfectly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTim=8=hb_t_vOX8PAEPCS=m3J2d1+z1raK=ui...@mail.gmail.com
