no longer possible to select GRUB Legacy by preseeding
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Some systems still require the use of GRUB Legacy; a notable one is Xen guests where the host is using PV-GRUB configured to read from /boot/grub/
I fixed this in grub-installer 1.68 in Debian unstable, and have proposed a suitable patch for Debian squeeze (http://
As usual for installer changes, testing this fix before it reaches natty-updates will require using the boot parameter apt-setup/
This depends on bug 720558.