apt-get upgrade and grub issue

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/06/2010 05:19 AM, stan wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:14:38PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:16 AM, stan<stanb at panix.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I have a freshly installed 10.4 instance on a lab machine. I installed it
>>> from the CD. Then I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade yesterday, or
>>> so. Today I tried to do that again, and now I have a problem. I am being
>>> prompted with a message that says:
>>>
>>> ??You chose not to install GRUB to any devices. ??If you continue, the boot
>>> ?????
>>> ????? loader may not be properly configured, and when your
>>> ??computer next ?? ?? ?? ?????
>>> ?? ??? starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot
>>> ?? sector. ??If ?? ?? ???
>>> ?? ?? ?? ????? there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector,
>>> ?? ?? ?? ??it may be ?? ?? ?? ???
>>> ?? ?? ?? ?? ??? unable to load modules or handle the current
>>> ?? ?? ?? ?? configuration file.
>>>
>>> But answering NO, just brings me back to the same prompt.
>>>
>>> What should I do?
>>>        
>> Do you have a bootloader - grub2, grub1, lilo - installed?
>>
>>      
> It's a brand new plain vanila install, that I did from scratch .
> So, I am assuming that the current default is grub2, right?
> This machine was not upgraded, or anything like that, it was just
> installed from teh CD, with all defaults, and apt-get updatetd
> a time or two, and yesterday morning, when I went to do another
> apt-get upgrade, I ran in to this issue.
>
> How can I check to see what bootloader is installed?
>
> I have  left this machine at this prompt, as I really don't
> want to have to rebuild it from scratch, as i have 3+ days of setup
> invested in it at this point in time.
>    
     The small upgrade you got was a new kernel. Try booting from the 
other kernel and see if that is the problem. I am using the new kernel 
without problems but...

73 Karl


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