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  1. Quantal (12.10)
  2. Bug #978464
  3. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 978464

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 978464] Re: After LTS->LTS (lucid2precise) upgrade, upon reboot drops into grub recovery shell

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:59:35PM -0000, Phillip Susi wrote:
> That's not really a fix Dmitrijs.

It's the fix I asked him to implement. As explained in the earlier
comments, there is no way we can guarantee with 100% reliability that the
MBR will be upgraded when the package is upgraded. We should therefore
maintain maximum compatibility here with old versions of grub - there's no
reason not to.