Bug#561837: grub not updatable to grub2

[Debian]

reassign 561837 grub2


Felix Zielcke schrieb:
> Am Sonntag, den 20.12.2009, 17:01 +0100 schrieb Debian:
>   
>> Package: grub
>> Version: 0.97-47lenny2
>> Severity: normal
>>     
> Uhm what exactly is your problem and to what GRUB version does it apply?
>   

Good question.
Grub 0.97 is installable and working perfect on some other PC's.
So i would say this bug should be better applied to package grub2

> You reported this bug against GRUB Legacy, i.e. 0.97.
> This grub binary doestn't exist anymore with GRUB 2.
>   

When it does not exist - why the installation is working?
After the installation of grub2 failed i reinstalled grub with aptitude.
You can see the output in my first eMail.

It says that package grub-pc is broken and must be removed.
After that the old grub was installed and can be called.
You can see it:

root at PC10:/boot> which grub
/usr/sbin/grub
root at PC10:/boot> grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

       [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.   For
         the   first   word,  TAB  lists  possible  command
         completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
         completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> quit
quit

root at PC10:/boot> dpkg -l | grep grub
ii  grub                                 0.97-47lenny2                  GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii  grub-common                          1.96+20080724-16               GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files)
rc  grub-pc                              1.96+20080724-16               GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
rc  grub2                                1.96+20080724-16               GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)



> You have to use grub-install now just as you first did in this report,
> before trying the grub command.
>   

Yes - this works without errors but i could not call grub on the shell!
Whatever i tried, the binary of grub2 was not installed.

> To generate grub.cfg it's still update-grub. But it's configured
> differently now.
>   

The configuration-file is generated.
But not more.

Up to now i didn't try a reboot.
I will check this now.
My hope is that grub2 is still booted from the other partition.


Regards
Karsten Malcher