Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:25:34AM +, T o n g wrote: hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only.

Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. I posted this past week

Re: Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:12:58PM +, T o n g wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen Powell wrote: Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? s/Dial/lilo/ Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family members through fixing machines that booted to LI or LIL .. no. I only wish lilo on enemies -- but still prefer enemies

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:46:28 -0400 (EDT), Joey Hess wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? s/Dial/lilo/ Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family members through fixing machines that booted to LI or LIL

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-28 Thread James Brown
T o n g wrote: hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. Comment? Thanks I have such

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:25:34 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. I don't

problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-27 Thread T o n g
hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. Comment? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)