apt-get upgrade and grub issue

[Goh Lip]

On 05/07/2010 12:58 AM, stan wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:12:43PM +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 May 2010 07:19:27 -0400
>> stan<stanb at panix.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have a grub rescue cd, boot into lucid and at terminal
>> sudo update-grub
>> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>>
>>
>> If you don't have grub rescue cd. boot livecd and follow instructions
>> from
>> http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide
>>
>
> I am still in the apt-get session, thus the system is still up. Can I just
> bail out, and do this?
>
If you are still at the apt-get session,(phew, that's a long time) where 
you answer 'no' gets you back to same prompt, what choice do you have, 
answer 'yes'; then do not reboot yet. Do the following.

sudo apt-get install grub-pc
sudo update-grub
sudo grub-install /dev/sda

Stan, if the prompt replies that you have already installed, etc.., that 
is a good thing. Then do again sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get 
upgrade for good measure. Then reboot.

If you face problem at this point, see my earlier message and go from there.

Good luck, Stan.


3+ days for all the installations? that's heck a lot of work.