[Bug 443326] Re: Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

[Peter Belew]

The reason for my concern about this was that I have some systems
which are multiboot, including FreeBSD in particular - while this is
well-documented for legacy Grub, it's not so much so for OSes like
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. I filed a separate bug, Bug #432254:
FreeBSD not detected by os-prober, about this. I did get it working
for FreeBSD, but apparently this is not documented still. Not having
the other two BSD variants, I don't know if they are supported. My
systems with this kind of configuration are test systems for Karmic
etc., so I'm trying to make good use of a limited resource.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> What actually happens, is that the update keeps the 0.9x grub, but
> updates the format of /boot/grub/menu.lst to a format which seems to
> me to be a bit less human-friendly, using hex labels like in recent
> installer-created versions of /etc/fstab. So I did let the upgrade
> happen, finally.
>
> I would assume that there's a new process for updating the 'old' menu.lst.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Lars Wirzenius <lars at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, that should happen. I assume that update-manager doesn't have any special code for handling grub in
>> normal upgrades, and that grub's and grub-pc's dependency fields should take care of not replacing one package with the other.
>> Thus, I'll reassign this to grub-pc; please reassign back or to a more appropriate package as necessary.
>>
>> ** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu)
>>
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>> Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443326
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