GRUB2

[John Pierce]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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Thanks for the reply, my system has been extremely fast since the
upgrade.  I have not checked the boot time but I feel it is probably
near 45 seconds from grub to login.  Was running about 1 minute 10
seconds.  I have also noticed that the newest nvidia driver is
screaming fast.  AMD turion dual core, 4 gigs of RAM and an nvidia
6150 chip.

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