Greetings! I am running Debian on an i386 machine with a dual boot: "Production," which is the stable release, and "Test," which is pointed to a mix of the stable & test repositories. In the past, when a new version is released, I always install it fresh into the Test "region" first to test it out before installing it into Production for my everyday use.
When doing so, I always tell the install not to install grub so as not to disturb my ability to boot into Production. This always has worked until I attempted to install version 5.0 today. After attempts to get 5.0 to boot using the grub from 4.0, I finally decided I needed to reinstall Grub from the 5.0 install. After many attempts using the "repair" boots, and one attempt at trying to trick the install program into installing Grub without reinstalling everything, I finally gave up. I am 2 hours into a total reinstall & hopeful that allowing Grub to install this time will do the trick. In the future, it would be very, very, very, very, very nice if there was an install option to install/reinstall Grub. Currently, the install process will not install/reinstall Grub without having the core packages installed first. I am using the netinstall, so I apologize if there is such an option on the full-install CD image. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
