Comment 20 for bug 949992

Actually, during the dist-manager -d install, I did get a dialog that
was all "unknown character" blocks in the message and on the buttons. I
don't know what it was asking. It didn't appear to block (I never
answered it, not being able to read it), but it was perhaps that
message. I HAVE seen it in the past, but not during this testing session.

I had meant to reproduce and document that weird dialog, but got
distracted by this problem. I'll go back and get more info on that
either over the weekend or Monday, when I have capacity on my VM host to
make another pre-update clone and run the process again.

The only dialog that I recall, apart from the typical "remove these
packages?" type things, was to do with restarting services.

On 03/09/2012 11:48 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> You should run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' and instruct it to
> install the boot loader somewhere, probably /dev/vda.
>
> The debconf database shows that the following question was presented to
> you at some point:
>
> You chose not to install GRUB to any devices. If you continue, the
> boot loader may not be properly configured, and when this computer next
> starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot sector. If
> there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector, it may be
> unable to load modules or handle the current configuration file.
>
> If you are already using a different boot loader and want to carry on
> doing so, or if this is a special environment where you do not need a
> boot loader, then you should continue anyway. Otherwise, you should
> install GRUB somewhere.
>
> Continue without installing GRUB?
>
> Do you remember seeing this question? It was intended to strongly
> discourage setups like this ...
>