Bug#546351: Warning

[John Winters]

 >>  There is a danger here of rendering a system un-bootable.
 >>  Since just installing grub-efi doesn't give you a working
 >>  boot mechanism, removing the alternative would seem to be
 >>  both unnecessary and dangerous.


 > See #543376
 > You can see from the filelist that grub-efi-{ia32,amd64} and
 > grub-pc all have files included which the other ones have too.
 > So it isn't that easy to just remove the Conflicts in
 > debian/control for them.

 > Just uninstalling grub-pc doestn't make your system unbootable.
 > It doestn't touch /boot/grub

A warning for anyone following down the same route of trying to get this 
package working.  Installing the Lenny version of grub-efi (and thus 
removing grub-pc) doesn't render your system un-bootable by the old 
method, but installing the Sid version (as advised elsewhere in this 
thread) does.  You thus get just one guess at the magic incantations 
needed to get grub-efi up and running before you need to resort to some 
sort of recovery disc.

The error given when you try to boot using BIOS grub is "Unknown command 
initrd".

John