Bug#494293: Reinstalling...

2008-12-14 Thread Henk Koster
u appeared and few seconds later the familiar Debian login screen. So, it appears that my earlier Grub problem has been solved, for which I thank the developers. -- Henk Koster "Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes." Attributed to L.J. Savage -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#494293: ...and finally.

2008-08-09 Thread Henk Koster
I've started the install-CD in rescue mode, opened a shell in a chroot, and did an "apt-get purge" to get rid of grub-pc in preparation of replacing it with the old grub package. Bit then, unlike the previous time, I checked and saw that /boot/grub was still full of files left there, including grub

Bug#494293: A bit more info...

2008-08-09 Thread Henk Koster
I used the very same amd64-netinst.iso dated 6 August 2008 to install on a newly built desktop computer, just a straight-forward install with Desktop and Standard tasks. Towards the end the installer installed "grub"... the old Grub (as I could verify after the successful reboot). Emboldened by th