Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-15 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 14:08 + schrieb Dennis 123321: I had this issue this morning. It is caused by the installation of the new grub not updating the actual mbr, and only the files in /boot/grub/ It is a simple fix; as root, execute something like this after you install the new

Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-15 Thread Vincent Fourmond
severity 564928 important thanks Hello, On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 14:08 + schrieb Dennis 123321: I had this issue this morning. It is caused by the installation of the new grub not updating the actual mbr, and

Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-15 Thread Dennis 123321
@Felix You said to run `sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' as the proper fix; Can I get this to install to a partition instead? I have a Macbook Pro 13 (5,5) and using legacy BIOS emulation boot /dev/sda3 (which contains grub-pc manually installed)/ Running your command, I only get the choice of

Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-15 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 10:58 + schrieb Dennis 123321: @Felix You said to run `sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' as the proper fix; Can I get this to install to a partition instead? I have a Macbook Pro 13 (5,5) and using legacy BIOS emulation boot /dev/sda3 (which contains grub-pc

Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-15 Thread Felix Zielcke
forcemerge 564928 554790 thanks Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 10:56 +0100 schrieb Vincent Fourmond: severity 564928 important thanks Hello, [...] OK, I understand the problem. I had changed the device (from IDE to SATA using an adapter). Is there any way to detect that at postinst ?

Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-15 Thread Dennis 123321
Hmm, I seem to remember reading that with a direct EFI boot you lose out on all accellerated video (which of course is no use whatsoever!). If that is no longer the case, I guess I'm just seriously out of date with GRUB knowledge, and when I get some spare time i'll browse the documentation and

Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

2010-01-13 Thread Dennis 123321
I had this issue this morning. It is caused by the installation of the new grub not updating the actual mbr, and only the files in /boot/grub/ It is a simple fix; as root, execute something like this after you install the new package for grub-pc. (changing the destination for your drive, this was