On Mon 11 Jul 2011 at 16:39:26 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> I had found that paragraph, but it didn't say what to do if you were 
> already running squeeze.

Sorry, so you had. I didn't quite pickup on your reference to the
Release Notes for Squeeze.

>                           Just that you'd be given that option if you 
> were doing a wholesale upgrade from oldstable lenny to stable squeeze.

I took the option a few days after upgrading. No problems.

>                                                                         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.

upgrade-from-grub-legacy is in the grub-pc package and is probably on
your system. You're not obliged to use it. Staying with Legacy GRUB is
ok but sooner or later support for it is likely to disappear.


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