apt-get upgrade and grub issue

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/06/2010 11:32 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 12:58 AM, stan wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:12:43PM +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, 6 May 2010 07:19:27 -0400
>>> stan<stanb at panix.com>   wrote:
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>>>> It's a brand new plain vanila install, that I did from scratch .
>>>> So, I am assuming that the current default is grub2, right?
>>>> This machine was not upgraded, or anything like that, it was just
>>>> installed from teh CD, with all defaults, and apt-get updatetd
>>>> a time or two, and yesterday morning, when I went to do another
>>>> apt-get upgrade, I ran in to this issue.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have a grub rescue cd, boot into lucid and at terminal
>>> sudo update-grub
>>> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>>>
>>>
>>> If you don't have grub rescue cd. boot livecd and follow instructions
>>> from
>>> http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide
>>>
>>>        
>> I am still in the apt-get session, thus the system is still up. Can I just
>> bail out, and do this?
>>
>>      
> If you are still at the apt-get session,(phew, that's a long time) where
> you answer 'no' gets you back to same prompt, what choice do you have,
> answer 'yes'; then do not reboot yet. Do the following.
>
> sudo apt-get install grub-pc
> sudo update-grub
> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>
> Stan, if the prompt replies that you have already installed, etc.., that
> is a good thing. Then do again sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get
> upgrade for good measure. Then reboot.
>
> If you face problem at this point, see my earlier message and go from there.
>
> Good luck, Stan.
>
>
> 3+ days for all the installations? that's heck a lot of work.
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         Today in NM-USA I just did a update and there were zero 
updates. !0.04 is up to date now.


73 Karl


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