Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

[Felix Zielcke]

From: "Chris Knadle" <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us>

> [sorry for the additional copy; forgot to CC the BTS]

No problem.
 
> On Monday 21 July 2008 06:44:45 pm, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>> Is this still a problem with grub2 1.96+20080704-2 currently in
>> testing/unstable ?
> 
>   Yes, unfortunately it is.  I just tested 0.97-41 and it still has the 
> problem.  The last version that doesn't have the problem is grub-0.97-32 -- 
> I've been having to force downgrade back to that version and then keep the 
> package on hold.
> 

Well, the old grub-legacy won't have much bugfixes anymore.

> I just tried, grub2 1.96+20080704-2 -- I can't even complete installing it 

Thanks for trying it with the new grub2 


>  I'll bring it up on the grub-devel mailing list again to see if I can get 
> some help figuring out how to get this fixed.


Thanks, I wasn't subscribed to grub-devel at that time so I didn't knew that

>Also, either grub2 and/or grub2-pc did not purge cleanly; it left a big mess 
>of files in /boot/grub/ after both were purged, which I had to manually pick 
>through and delete those

Please see #470400 [0]

If you replace grub-legacy with grub2 completely, i.e. not choosing the chainload option
then it should have cleaned up the old grub files
If that didn't work for you then please make a new report.
If you just purge the old grub package and then install grub-pc they won't get cleaned up

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470400