Breezy upgrade disaster - Grub advice?

[Brian Walker]

On 10/23/05, Brian Astill <brian at nospam.com.au> wrote:
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Fortunately I have an 80G HD with some spare space, so have been able to
> install a fresh Hoary which I am using to send this message. But still no
> working Breezy. :-(
>
> Only thing I can now think of is to empty the original ubuntu partition
> and
> install Breezy from scratch. However, what might grub make of this? Will
> the grub from breezy auto-detect existing systems and replace the existing
> grub without any problem? If so, fine. If not, what should I do?
>
> Thanks for all help so far.


Well, I tried to apt-get dist-upgrade into breezy from my hoary box, and
ended up with innumerable problems, not the least being a horrendously long
download time. Long story short, I reinstalled breezy from a downloaded CD
onto what had been my spare PC-BSD partition.

On rebooting, I got my old hoary grub screen, with PC-BSD still appearing.
Went into PC-=BSD and found my new breezy grub screen, with all functioning
as expected.

So far so good, and I am considering leaving it like that, becaue the
thought of borking grub is too much to bear at the moment. But that is what
hapened to me, so I suggest grub will do just fine.

Brian

PS - what would you do to rectify my grub position now?
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