Hi,
I just ran into the very same problem, but with different start and
workaround:
I have an amd64 Squeeze box which did run fine with grub2/grub-pc with
the expection that no Xen hypervisors are detected by update-grub.
So I removed grub-pc and install grub-legacy instead.
It didn't seem to run grub-install no update-grub on installation:
3/130/0 r...@acromantula:pts/1 14:24:06 [~] # LANG=C aptitude -u
(Reading database ... 53435 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub-pc ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
(Reading database ... 53213 files and directories currently installed.)
Selecting previously deselected package grub-legacy.
(Reading database ... 53209 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub-legacy (from .../grub-legacy_0.97-59_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up grub-legacy (0.97-59) ...
Press return to continue.
^C
4/130/0 r...@acromantula:pts/1 14:25:33 [~] #
Running update-grub after removing grub-pc and installing grub-legacy
also yielded in the error, Joey reported:
8/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/1 14:26:45 [~] # update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting
the default boot entry to 0
entry not specified.
Usage: grub-set-default [OPTION] entry
Set the default boot entry for GRUB.
-h, --help print this message and exit
-v, --version print the version information and exit
--root-directory=DIR Use the directory DIR instead of the root directory
ENTRY is a number or the special keyword `default\'.
Report bugs to <bug-g...@gnu.org>.
9/1/0 r...@acromantula:pts/1 14:26:48 [~] #
Purging grub-pc didn't help. The only thing helped so far is to run
grub-install. Afterwards update-grub worked fine again.
(Later grub failed after selecting a menu item, but that will go into
another bug report. :-)
Regards, Axel
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