GRUB2

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 01 Nov 2009 21:40:58 John Pierce wrote:
> Greetings all!
> 
> I went through the dist-upgrade from inside of KDE and it failed at
> about 60% through.  I knew the system was in a state of flux at that
> point so I opened a shell and ran "sudo dpkg --configure -a."  This
> went through the rest of the setup process, however GRUB was never
> installed.  I then did "sudo aptitude install grub2" and the resulting
> command installed two packages which were grub2 and grub-pc.  I opted
> to let the unit chain load grub2 from grub legacy to test it out, but
> it fails and the system just boots normally.  I mean to say that I am
> never taken to a grub2 menu.  I have since un-installed grub2 and
> repeated this process twice with the same result each time.
> 
> Also, I have not seen any upgrades come through the pipe line since I did this.
> 
> 
I did the upgrade and it didn't install grub2 for me either, but the system carried on working anyway, booting normally with the 'old' grub. If  hadn't checked I would never have noticed.

Well, I say "normally", it was pretty slow. Eventually I did a reinstall and now it seems to be smoother. 

Mark