Upgrade to Beta 1 does not install grub to partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
grub-pc:
Installed: 1.99-11ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.99-11ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.99-11ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Prior setup is a Natty Install on /dev/sda5, with grub2 installed on that same partition, as laptop has a Windows installation in /dev/sda2, and the Windows boot manager is used as the main, chainloading to grub when Ubuntu is desired.
Upgrade to Oneiric Beta 1 seems to have a grub2 that does not allow itself being installed in /dev/sda5, as seen in /var/log/
/usr/sbin/
/usr/sbin/
/usr/sbin/
...first reboot after upgrade left the Windows boot manager intact, but choosing to boot Ubuntu with it leads to a blank screen, meaning there's no grub2 in /dev/sda5; I find it odd that the upgrade removed it.
Workaround was to boot with a rescue CD (e.g. Natty live CD) and chroot to /dev/sda5 to do `grub-install /dev/sda'; while this works now, this may be undesirable for those using non-Linux boot loaders as their primary boot manager.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: grub-pc 1.99-11ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 2 01:40:44 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_PH:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-01 (0 days ago)
bug #851012 might be a duplicate