Hi there, I just installed Grub2 yesterday which installed 2 other packages like :-
aptitude show grub2 Package: grub2 State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 156k Depends: debconf, grub-pc Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package) This is a dummy transitional package to handle GRUB 2 upgrades. It can be safely removed. aptitude show grub-pc Package: grub-pc State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 2400k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), liblzo2-2 Conflicts: pupa, grub Replaces: pupa, grub, grub2 (< 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1) Provides: grub Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) GRUB 2 (also known as PUPA) is the Preliminary Universal Programming Architecture for GRUB. It is a research project for the next generation of GNU GRUB. The most important goal is to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. GRUB 2 targets at the following goals: * Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and functions. * Graphical interface. * Dynamic loading of modules in order to extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time. * Portability for various architectures. * Internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on. * Real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible. * Modular, hierarchical, object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, partition tables and OS loaders. * Cross-platform installation which allows for installing GRUB from a different architecture. * Rescue mode saves unbootable cases. Stage 1.5 was eliminated. * Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions. This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use with traditional PC/BIOS architecture. Content of /boot/grub ls -la total 656 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-10 22:30 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-09 04:55 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2256 2007-06-09 14:19 acorn.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4840 2007-06-09 14:19 affs.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2600 2007-06-09 14:19 amiga.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2704 2007-06-09 14:19 apple.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2600 2007-06-09 14:19 bitmap.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2132 2007-06-09 14:19 blocklist.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-06-09 14:19 boot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1360 2007-06-09 14:19 boot.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1880 2007-06-09 14:19 cat.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2320 2007-06-09 14:19 _chain.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1724 2007-06-09 14:19 chain.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2212 2007-06-09 14:19 cmp.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 528 2007-06-09 14:19 command.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1908 2007-06-09 14:19 configfile.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27297 2007-06-09 14:19 core.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1592 2007-06-09 14:19 cpuid.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 2007-06-09 08:03 default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 2007-06-09 14:19 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-06-09 14:19 diskboot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8660 2007-06-09 08:03 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4492 2007-06-09 14:19 elf.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4268 2007-06-09 14:19 ext2.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4900 2007-06-09 14:19 fat.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8452 2007-06-09 08:03 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2576 2007-06-09 14:19 font.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2592 2007-06-09 14:19 fshelp.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 2007-06-09 14:19 fs.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6716 2007-06-09 14:19 gfxterm.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2796 2007-06-09 14:19 gpt.mod -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1034 2007-06-10 22:30 grub.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8232 2007-06-09 14:19 gzio.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 2007-06-09 14:19 halt.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1288 2007-06-09 14:19 hello.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1988 2007-06-09 14:19 help.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6500 2007-06-09 14:19 hfs.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6400 2007-06-09 14:19 hfsplus.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 2007-06-09 08:04 installed-version -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5196 2007-06-09 14:19 iso9660.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5140 2007-06-09 14:19 jfs.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9152 2007-06-09 08:03 jfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31128 2007-06-09 14:19 kernel.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4876 2007-06-09 14:19 _linux.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1576 2007-06-09 14:19 linux.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3212 2007-06-09 14:19 loopback.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3864 2007-06-09 14:19 ls.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5128 2007-06-09 14:19 lvm.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4221 2007-06-10 22:30 menu.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4220 2007-06-09 14:20 menu.lst~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4328 2007-06-09 14:19 minix.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7860 2007-06-09 08:03 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687 2007-06-09 14:19 moddep.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5180 2007-06-09 14:19 _multiboot.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1632 2007-06-09 14:19 multiboot.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39400 2007-06-09 14:19 normal.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3340 2007-06-09 14:19 pc.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2204 2007-06-09 14:19 play.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2007-06-09 14:19 pxeboot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4296 2007-06-09 14:19 raid.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1272 2007-06-09 14:19 reboot.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10132 2007-06-09 08:03 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3168 2007-06-09 14:19 search.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4360 2007-06-09 14:19 sfs.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-06-09 08:03 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110260 2007-06-09 08:04 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2552 2007-06-09 14:19 sun.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1880 2007-06-09 14:19 terminal.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 2007-06-09 14:19 terminfo.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1664 2007-06-09 14:19 test.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2952 2007-06-09 14:19 tga.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4724 2007-06-09 14:19 ufs.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2200 2007-06-09 14:19 vbeinfo.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13944 2007-06-09 14:19 vbe.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3076 2007-06-09 14:19 vbetest.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3824 2007-06-09 14:19 video.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2788 2007-06-09 14:19 videotest.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6912 2007-06-09 14:19 xfs.mod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9980 2007-06-09 08:03 xfs_stage1_5 On the GRUB menu apart from the regular entries there is also a chainload to GRUB 2. When I enter that I get a menu similar to GRUB menu but without any entries. Dunno why it is there, can anybody explain ? This is just a comment on how it looks on gutsy, nothing else, sorry if its out of line of context of the mailing list. Carry on the good work. Cheers ! -- Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel