[Bug 857548] Re: no longer possible to select GRUB Legacy by preseeding

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This bug was fixed in the package grub-installer - 1.60ubuntu4

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grub-installer (1.60ubuntu4) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * Restore the ability to choose to install GRUB Legacy by preseeding
    (grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy=false), removed in 1.60 as
    a side-effect of removing a warning message.  This is still useful e.g.
    when installing inside Xen (LP: #857548).
 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>   Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:47:03 +0100

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu Natty)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  no longer possible to select GRUB Legacy by preseeding

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “grub-installer” source package in Natty:
  Fix Released
Status in “grub-installer” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Some systems still require the use of GRUB Legacy; a notable one is
  Xen guests where the host is using PV-GRUB configured to read from
  /boot/grub/menu.lst, a not uncommon hosting company setup.  It used to
  be possible to force the installer to do this by preseeding grub-
  installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy=false, and this was supported
  up to grub-installer 1.59.  Unfortunately, in 1.60, Debian stopped the
  warning message attached to that debconf template from being displayed
  even in expert mode, but forgot to preserve the ability to preseed
  that template.

  I fixed this in grub-installer 1.68 in Debian unstable, and have
  proposed a suitable patch for Debian squeeze (http://lists.debian.org
  /debian-release/2011/09/msg00394.html).  I intend to merge this into
  Oneiric.  Natty is also affected, so I will upload a suitable patch
  there as well.

  As usual for installer changes, testing this fix before it reaches
  natty-updates will require using the boot parameter apt-
  setup/proposed=true.

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