Brett, I'm sorry you had such a hard time of things, but I'm not sure there's anything we can do here to improve the situation.
- the kernel packages deliberately do not depend on grub, because in certain scenarios a user will need lilo instead so it needs to be possible to have lilo installed and not grub. - that implies that the grub package will be removable, even though it's not a good idea to remove it. - I've tested here, and see that trying to install splashy does not remove grub for me; that would have been a significant bug, and one we should want to fix very badly, but I don't see any bug here that we can fix. If you can learn from your apt logs why the grub package was removed, maybe we can still do something to fix that. - if the kernel doesn't find a bootloader, I think we *need* to fail the installation of that kernel package, since it won't be usable after install. In the case of grub, uninstalling the grub package probably leaves the bootloader blocks on the disk, but without update-grub the new kernel will never be activated, which could in many cases be a security hole if we don't throw an error. - even if we wanted it to be permissible to remove the grub package and let the kernels be installed without auto-updating of the grub menu, the config file that tells the kernels to call update-grub, /etc/kernel-img.conf, is not managed by the grub package, it's managed by the installer. So there's no good way to have this file changed when grub is removed without significant changes to the grub package, which I think would be inappropriate in any case (grub itself should not be the bit that decides whether grub gets invoked at kernel install time). So in short, I'm afraid the answer to "the kernels don't install ok when grub is removed" is "don't remove grub". If we can find a package that's forcing grub's removal, then that should be fixed; otherwise, this is in the category of things you will always be able to do to break your system, and therefore shouldn't do. (In the same vein, it will always be *possible* to remove all kernels from your system - but not a good idea...) -- Uninstalling grub makes kernel upgrade fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243842 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
