[Bug 800910] Re: Kernel Upgrade forces removal of grub-efi due to missing recommends entry

[Steve Williams]

I have an Asus e35m1-i deluxe and I cannot upgrade GRUB without seeing
this happen in the update manager.

For reference, when updating GRUB, I am asked where I want to install
the update, to which I am offered to install it to /dev/sda which is my
Samsung hard disk or to it's primary partition.

I have tried both of them separately and then both together and still
can't get it to work.

Every time I get the error:

"error: invalid arch independent ELF magic"

Thanks

Steve

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Title:
  Kernel Upgrade forces removal of grub-efi due to missing recommends
  entry

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Natty:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Natty:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm currently experiencing an issue with installing kernel updates on
  natty.

  It seems to want to force install grub-pc -- ignoring the fact that
  grub-efi is installed.

  Looking at the dsc for the kernels at present, it seems linux-image-*
  recommends grub , grub-pc or lilo, but omits grub-efi which means when
  a kernel upgrade happens it forces removal of it for a recommended
  bootloader - despite the fact that grub-efi-* is perfectly valid, and
  is required for EFI booting.

  keith at Jarvis:~$ uname -a
  Linux Jarvis 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  keith at Jarvis:~$ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.38-10-generic | grep Recommends
  Recommends: grub-pc | grub | lilo (>= 19.1)

  -Keith

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