My greatest fear is that my ineptitude dealing with this bug will hold back the fix for #576724 which effected many, many more people. Most probably thousands!
I've tried the new version many different ways, but trying the old version I was never able to reproduce the abhorrent behavior described here. Even trying "echo SET grub-pc/install_devices /dev/ohdearnosuchdevice | sudo debconf-communicate" i never could reproduce the problem, or even get "The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present ...".
Now, I never did try my box with Windows on it but I think you said that wasn't necessary. Reading Flour's explanation I'm certainly not able to duplicate that behavior because I've never used the server version nor do I understand using a VM.
IMHO it would be a bloody shame to hold back this fix for #576724 because of a corner issue like this. I most recently tried this only upgrading the grub-pc and grub-common packages in Karmic to the new Lucid packages numerous ways and finally with a full upgrade.
I should be able to leave that installation in tact until I need to do iso and/or upgrade testing again.
I really want to see this update move from proposed to recommended :^)
If I can do anything to facilitate that just tell me, but be very detailed and I'll comply.
@ Colin Watson,
My greatest fear is that my ineptitude dealing with this bug will hold back the fix for #576724 which effected many, many more people. Most probably thousands!
I've tried the new version many different ways, but trying the old version I was never able to reproduce the abhorrent behavior described here. Even trying "echo SET grub-pc/ install_ devices /dev/ohdearnosu chdevice | sudo debconf- communicate" i never could reproduce the problem, or even get "The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present ...".
Now, I never did try my box with Windows on it but I think you said that wasn't necessary. Reading Flour's explanation I'm certainly not able to duplicate that behavior because I've never used the server version nor do I understand using a VM.
IMHO it would be a bloody shame to hold back this fix for #576724 because of a corner issue like this. I most recently tried this only upgrading the grub-pc and grub-common packages in Karmic to the new Lucid packages numerous ways and finally with a full upgrade.
I should be able to leave that installation in tact until I need to do iso and/or upgrade testing again.
I really want to see this update move from proposed to recommended :^)
If I can do anything to facilitate that just tell me, but be very detailed and I'll comply.