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Re: installing/using grub-legacy

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Quoting Felix Miata (mrmazda@earthlink.net):
> All my many installations are seriously multiboot, with typically no less
> than 10 distro installations within a HD's first year of use, and upwards of
> 30 partitions as HD warranty becomes a distant memory.
> 
> In order to Keep It (multiboot) Stupidly Simple, most booting here is via
> Grub 0.97.x. So as a first attempt to revert from grub2 to grub-legacy I've
> been trying with a 64 bit intel CPU wheezy installation on host msi85. I did
> apt-get purge of os-prober and everything I could identify as related to
> grub2, rebooted, then tried apt-get install grub-legacy. That pulled in
> grub-common, claiming to have installed both. But, nothing reached
> /boot/grub/. On rpm systems, rpm -i of a grub-legacy package populates
> /boot/grub/ with things like device.map, menu.lst, stage1, stage2 and
> *stage*. Enabling use as bootloader on the / partition can be a simple matter
> of creating a menu.lst and running setup from the grub shell. Thus, I rarely
> make use of any grub scripts personally managing multiboot configuration.
> 
> Why didn't/doesn't apt-get put anything in /boot/grub/?

I can't think why apt would know of the existence of /boot, let alone
trample on anything that is already there. Imagine you had lilo on
your system and you'd decided to replace it with grub. So you install
grub and and it tramples on /boot...now your system in unbootable.

Once you've installed grub with apt, you can then run grub-install to
actually install the grub configuration itself.

Cheers,
David.

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installing/using grub-legacy Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-22 00:10 +0200
  Re: installing/using grub-legacy David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-22 02:40 +0200
    Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 18:20 +0200
      Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 18:40 +0200
        Re: installing/using grub-legacy David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-23 19:10 +0200
          Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 20:10 +0200
            Re: installing/using grub-legacy Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-23 21:00 +0200
              Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 23:40 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 00:30 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-24 00:50 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-24 09:30 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 10:20 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-24 11:20 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-24 13:00 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 21:50 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-25 00:00 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-10-25 11:50 +0100
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-25 23:00 +0100
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-25 23:50 +0100
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-24 18:40 +0200
                Re: installing/using grub-legacy John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-10-24 19:10 +0200
  Re: installing/using grub-legacy Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-23 21:10 +0200
    Re: installing/using grub-legacy Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-24 03:40 +0200
      Re: installing/using grub-legacy Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-02 08:50 +0100
        Re: installing/using grub-legacy David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 15:50 +0100
          Re: installing/using grub-legacy Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 16:20 +0100
          Re: installing/using grub-legacy Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-02 20:50 +0100

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