apt-get upgrade and grub issue

[stan]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 06:00:53AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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...
> 

Actually I am trying to do an apt-get upgrade, not an apt-get dist-upgrade.
The first does not bring in the new kernel, the 2nd does. Could this be the
problem? If so, is it safe to bail out of the session I am in, and start a
dist-upgrade?
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