Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:02:27 -0700, Go Linux wrote: > After I installed Squeeze on a brand new drive, it automagically found > the old Hardy install on a second drive. It was absolutely painless. > Grub2 on my Squeeze is 1.98+20100804-14. Your scenario is quite opposite to mine. You installed Sq

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:53:40 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:10:01 Juan R. de Silva said: > > I don't know what you're using there Juan, but this combination of > packages works flawlessly at present and displays a vociferous ability > to find bootable partitions and drives

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Go Linux
After I installed Squeeze on a brand new drive, it automagically found the old Hardy install on a second drive. It was absolutely painless. Grub2 on my Squeeze is 1.98+20100804-14. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:10:01 Juan R. de Silva said: I don't know what you're using there Juan, but this combination of packages works flawlessly at present and displays a vociferous ability to find bootable partitions and drives if you're using a pc bios. grub-common 1.99-8 grub-pc 1.99-8 grub-

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:21:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:48:40 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:59:41 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> Isn't it a faulty/buggy behaviour? Wasn't

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:48:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:59:41 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Isn't it a faulty/buggy behaviour? Wasn't GRUB or os-prober supposed to >>> find newly installed OS wi

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:48:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:59:41 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > (...) > >> Isn't it a faulty/buggy behaviour? Wasn't GRUB or os-prober supposed to >> find newly installed OS without it's root being mounted first? Or I >> misunderstand somethi

Re: grub2 help needed

2011-07-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:59:41 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: (...) > Isn't it a faulty/buggy behaviour? Wasn't GRUB or os-prober supposed to > find newly installed OS without it's root being mounted first? Or I > misunderstand something here? I've found an Ubuntu bug report for a similar issue: