Just an update on where I'm at with this. I'm still several hours away from the "prescribed test cases" but while taking a break I booted into my installed "stable" Lucid and installed the proposed updates. All went well.
I was first presented with the common options regarding "command line" and "boot parameters", and I accepted the defaults. Next I was presented with whether to keep my modified config and the default was "keep local version". I chose to compare and things looked as they should, that is the dialog was clear. I'd forgotten some of the modifications I'd made until seeing that :^)
Since I'm testing I went for the "maintainers version" and all went well. Things rebooted as they should, that is boot was still handled by my Karmic install. I next booted back into Lucid and ran "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" and things appeared as they should.
I will still follow the whole test case scenario described in bug #580408 to be very, very sure but so far this is looking very good to me.
Just an update on where I'm at with this. I'm still several hours away from the "prescribed test cases" but while taking a break I booted into my installed "stable" Lucid and installed the proposed updates. All went well.
I was first presented with the common options regarding "command line" and "boot parameters", and I accepted the defaults. Next I was presented with whether to keep my modified config and the default was "keep local version". I chose to compare and things looked as they should, that is the dialog was clear. I'd forgotten some of the modifications I'd made until seeing that :^)
Since I'm testing I went for the "maintainers version" and all went well. Things rebooted as they should, that is boot was still handled by my Karmic install. I next booted back into Lucid and ran "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" and things appeared as they should.
I will still follow the whole test case scenario described in bug #580408 to be very, very sure but so far this is looking very good to me.