Bug#707653: Grub 2.00-14 upgrade from 1.99 failed to run update-grub

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:39:36PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> I encountered this bug, though the system still booted successfully with
> some error messages.
> 
> "grub-install /dev/sda" and "update-grub" fixed the problem.
> 
> 'dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' was NOT useful.
> 
> I think grub-pc.postinst failed to run any of the code paths that would
> run update-grub. The script seems to use existence of "stage2" file as a
> trigger for update path from legacy grub and existence of "core.img" as
> a trigger for new grub. Before running the above commands, my system had
> neither a file named "stage2" nor one named "core.img", so the script
> did nothing.

This is not the same as the problem that the original submitter of this
bug had.  You should probably file a new bug with more details of your
investigations if you still consider it active, although I don't know
whether it will be possible to tell at this point why you didn't have a
core.img ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]