Bug#546822: apt-get update of grub-pc daisychained from -legacy boots into -pc

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 00:28 +0200 schrieb Steffen Moeller:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.97~beta3-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I obeyed the request to test grub2 and install grub-pc. This ended up in the daisychained invocation of first the legacy grub with the first entry being the grub2.
> 
> Then there was a new grub2 package which was installed together with others via apt-get -u dist-upgrade. 
> 
> Since then, the system boots into grub-pc, no longer into grub-legacy. This will be of some serious dissatisfaction to those whose daisychained grub-pc install was not functional and the user hoped to have better success with the new version.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steffen

We never install grub2 into MBR without asking the user first.
There's a debconf prompt for it, where you have to choose the device
where it should get installed.
If you choose a device there, then it's clear that your grub-legacy gets
replaced in the MBR

-- debconf information:
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda

And you did.
So I fail to see where the bug is.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer