[Bug 721544] Re: Update replaced grub-efi with grub-pc causing boot failure.

[Patrick Horn]

This is why you should always watch the list of packages being updated,
especially if you are on a server.

As a workaround, you can put a hold on grub-efi-amd64:
echo "grub-efi-amd64 hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After doing the dist-upgrade, I was able to remove the hold ("grub-efi-
amd64 install") without problems, but I'm going to keep the hold since I
don't want ubuntu to mess with my bootloader in the future...

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Title:
  Update replaced grub-efi with grub-pc causing boot failure.

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  After a fresh install of Alpha2, I performed an update and the system
  would no longer boot... so after a fresh install, I tried the update
  with synaptic to see what it proposed to do.  To my surprise it
  removed grub-efi, and replaced it with grub-pc.  It seems pretty
  obvious that this is somewhat counter productive!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: synaptic 0.75~pre4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb 18 21:49:11 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: synaptic

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