[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

Yay! It only took 7 years ;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611740 Title: remove grub, superseded by grub2 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

Removing packages from zesty: grub 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty grub 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64 grub 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty i386 grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64 grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty arm64

[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

I have spoken with the Canonical CPC team, and the EC2 AMIs are not built using the grub source package; they only use the grub-legacy-ec2 package (built from cloud-init source) which provides grub1-compatible menu.lst. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

grub legacy support is indeed removed from grub-installer now (see above upload comment). However, grub is apparently still required when building new AMI instances for EC2. I think it probably best not be removed until we can ascertain its use. I've asked the CPC team already. According to the

[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

This bug was fixed in the package grub-installer - 1.128ubuntu6 --- grub-installer (1.128ubuntu6) yakkety; urgency=medium * grub-installer: remove grub/grub-legacy code. We only do variants of grub2. (LP: #1611740) -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre Thu, 11

[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

I had looked anyway and the "upgrade path" appears appropriate. Installing grub-pc will tell you how to proceed with the upgrade, in which case you can either chainload the new grub or replace things altogether. Seems to me like a go to remove grub. Adding the grub-installer task to drop the

Re: [Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:33:34PM -, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > Looks like we only install grub (legacy) if we're about to install grub- > pc and "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy" is preseeded to > false, which typically doesn't happen. It's default is true, and we > don't

[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

Looks like we only install grub (legacy) if we're about to install grub- pc and "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy" is preseeded to false, which typically doesn't happen. It's default is true, and we don't set this in ubiquity or d-i. grub-legacy-ec2 installs some data for EC2 instances