[Bug 1132345] Re: grub 0.97 and 2.00 installed in VMs causes confusion

[Scott Moser]

I've moved this to 'low' on vm-builder, and made it affect grub2 in ubuntu.  Hopefully cjwatson can tell me if I'm wrong.
Generally, though, grub-pc and grub conflict with each other, so the state you got (with -pc uninstalled) is not terribly unreasonable.

fwiw, The ubuntu cloud images uses 'grub-legacy-ec2' to manage
/boot/grub/menu.lst.  Ie, if you really think you need that file
managed, that is one solution.  The other solution is to use drop grub
0.97


** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: vm-builder (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Low

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Title:
  grub 0.97 and 2.00 installed in VMs causes confusion

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “vm-builder” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Using Ubuntu 12.04.2 Precise on amd64 with kvm_intel, libvirt and
  vmbuilder.

  After building a VM for raring using:

  $ sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --flavour virtual --suite raring --arch
  i386 --hostname vm-ubuntu-raring-playpen --proxy
  http://10.254.251.1:3142 --libvirt qemu:///system --addpkg linux-
  image-generic --addpkg acpid

   I was trying to force the console to be text-mode by removing
  "splash", adding "nomodeset" and "GRUB_TERMINAL=console" to
  "/etc/default/grub" and then doing 'update-grub'. The changed settings
  weren't having any effect.

  I found that "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" (from grub2) was missing. Further
  investigation showed "/boot/grub/menu.lst" (from grub 0.97) was
  present, but didn't reflect the changes I was making to
  "/etc/default/grub". Then I found:

  $ dpkg-query -l '*grub*' | grep -v ^un
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                              Version                      Architecture Description
  +++-=================================-============================-============-===========================================================================
  ii  grub                              0.97-29ubuntu66              i386         GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
  ii  grub-common                       2.00-12ubuntu1               i386         GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
  rc  grub-pc                           2.00-12ubuntu1               i386         GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
  ii  grub-pc-bin                       2.00-12ubuntu1               i386         GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS binaries)

  $ lsb_release -a && uname -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
  Release:	13.04
  Codename:	raring
  Linux vm-ubuntu-raring-playpen 3.8.0-7-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 21 20:44:11 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

  I had to purge "grub" then install "grub2" followed by running the
  grub to grub2 upgrade script:

  sudo apt-get --purge remove grub
  sudo apt-get install grub2
  sudo /usr/sbin/upgrade-from-grub-legacy
  sudo rm -f /boot/grub/menu.lst*

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