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From: T o n g on 28 Mar 2010 01:30
hi,

Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now
I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with
version 2 only.

Comment?

Thanks

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From: James Brown on 28 Mar 2010 06:50
T o n g wrote:
> hi,
>
> Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now
> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
> legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with
> version 2 only.
>
> Comment?
>
> Thanks
>
>
I have such problem about two weeks with my Dedian testing working under
a virtual machine.


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From: Stephen Powell on 28 Mar 2010 23:30
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:25:34 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote:
>
> Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now
> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
> legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with
> version 2 only.

I don't mean to make light of your problem, but this reminds me of an
old bath soap commercial. Many years ago, Dial soap had an advertising
slogan that went like this:

Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?

s/Dial/lilo/

No doubt my friends and acquaintances on this list will accuse me of
having a lilo "fixation", but this opportunity was too good to pass up.

But seriously, it's obvious that somebody messed up with the package
dependencies. There's not much point in having a grub-legacy package
if it can't be installed, now is there? As I see it, you have the
following options:

(1) Force grub-legacy to be installed with overrides to the package
management system, leaving you with a "broken" package management
system.

(2) Live with grub-pc until somebody gets their act together and fixes
this problem, or

(3) Forget the whole ugly grub mess and switch to lilo.

I know what I would do, but it's your call.

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From: Freeman on 29 Mar 2010 04:00
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:25:34AM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> hi,
>
> Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now
> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
> legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with
> version 2 only.
>

I posted this past week about grub-common confusion that turned a simple
legacy install into a long session. Grub-common rides in with legacy and
makes an /etc/grub.d directory and scatters files all over the /boot/grub
directory, including grub.cfg . But then it just sits there and tries to
look like Grub-PC is installed.

My system still boots off /boot/grub/menu.lst, kernel updates and update-grub still
modify menu.lst, ^c still drops into a grub 0.97 terminal from the boot
menu.

I did another legacy install last night. I do think I remember getting
Grub-PC in some dependency resolution, but I was able to remove it and
install legacy without forcing anything.

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From: Joey Hess on 29 Mar 2010 15:50
Stephen Powell wrote:
> Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?
>
> s/Dial/lilo/

Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family
members through fixing machines that booted to "LI" or "LIL" .. no.
I only wish lilo on enemies -- but still prefer enemies use soap.

> But seriously, it's obvious that somebody messed up with the package
> dependencies. There's not much point in having a grub-legacy package
> if it can't be installed, now is there?

Except that's is clearly not the case that grub-legacy cannot be
installed, if you actually look at the dependencies of grub-common. I
have grub-legacy installed here, works fine.

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