On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis <pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14. > > To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub > refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly, > but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could > not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use > blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable. > > What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.
I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug. It'd be nice to see the actual error message... This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large is "core.img"? -- 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/CAOdo=SwPZbpJRe-1=kr2pu8jsunwf+68g4zt2f8tfmovt+d...@mail.gmail.com
