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

[TJ]

Public bug reported:

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*

** Affects: vm-builder (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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