apt-get upgrade and grub issue

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 5 23:05:33 UTC 2010


On 05/05/2010 06:16 AM, stan wrote:
> I have a freshly installed 10.4 instance on a lab machine. I installed it
> from the CD. Then I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade yesterday, or
> so. Today I tried to do that again, and now I have a problem. I am being
> prompted with a message that says:
> 
>  You chose not to install GRUB to any devices.  If you continue, the boot
>>   │ loader may not be properly configured, and when your
>   computer next        │ 
>    │ starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot
>    sector.  If     │ 
> 	│ there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector,
> 	it may be       │ 
> 	 │ unable to load modules or handle the current
> 	 configuration file.  
> 
> But answering NO, just brings me back to the same prompt. I ahve put a good
> deal of work into getting VirtualBox, and several instnaces of Guest OS'es
> on this machine, I really don't want to have to start over, it has about 3
> solid days of work in it.
> 
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> 

Review:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
to see if you can spot anything obvious.







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