ubuntu 12.04 LTS how to avoid GRUB update‏

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:41:42 +0100, Petter Adsen wrote:
>1. 'dpkg -l | grep grub'
> This lists all the installed grub packages
>2. 'apt-get purge <list of packages from above step>'
> This removes them
>3. 'apt-mark hold <list of removed packages>'
> This prevents them from being installed again

I would hold the list of packages that are recommended by the
linux-image

  "grub-pc
    GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) 
   or grub-efi-amd64
    GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-AMD64 version) 
   or grub-efi-ia32
    GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 version) 
   or grub
    GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version) 
   or lilo (>= 19.1)
    LInux LOader - the classic OS boot loader" -
   http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-updates/linux-image-3.8.0-44-generic

and not the list of purged/removed packages

  "grub-common
    GRand Unified Bootloader (common files) 

  grub-gfxpayload-lists
    GRUB gfxpayload blacklist 

  grub-pc-bin (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.19)
    GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS binaries) 

  grub2-common (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.19)
    GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)" -
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-updates/grub-pc

since even if the other recommended bootloader packages of linux-image
should share a dependency of the purged/removed grub packages, then at
least lilo still is missing. Perhaps apt tries to install lilo, if grub
can't be installed.