Bug#557425: lenny->squeeze upgrade -> system no longer bootable

[Robert Millan]

forcemerge 557425 558747
thanks

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:09:49AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> clone 557425 -1 -2
> retitle 557425 lenny->squeeze upgrade, debconf defaults -> system unbootable
> retitle -1 please produce a grub.cfg that can be used by payload from lenny
> severity -1 wishlist
> submitter -1 !
> [...]
> 
>  - 'update-grub' in squeeze is producing a grub.cfg cannot be used with
>    grub2 from lenny.  It would be really nice to fix this, so one could
>    upgrade the package and the actual bootloader as separate steps.
> 
>    This would also make it easier to recover from situations where the
>    grub-install subtly fails.  e.g. I have stupidly made grub-install
>    write to the wrong partition before.

Yes, that'd be a good solution.  Unfortunately I don't have time to implement
it, but if you can send a patch, it'd be most appreciated.

>  - [...] I think it would
>    be nice to detect what version of the bootloader is already installed
>    and give appropriate advice,

Sorry, that's not possible.  Most of the time they're not even "versions"
but Bazaar snapshots.  And we don't track internal ABI in upstream because
it'd be unsustainable.

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Robert Millan

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