Re: apt-get upgrade and grub issue

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:19 AM, stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:14:38PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:16 AM, stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a freshly installed 10.4 instance on a lab machine. I installed it
from the CD. Then I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade yesterday, or
so. Today I tried to do that again, and now I have a problem. I am being
prompted with a message that says:

??You chose not to install GRUB to any devices. ??If you continue, the boot
?????
????? loader may not be properly configured, and when your
??computer next ?? ?? ?? ?????
?? ??? starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot
?? sector. ??If ?? ?? ???
?? ?? ?? ????? there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector,
?? ?? ?? ??it may be ?? ?? ?? ???
?? ?? ?? ?? ??? unable to load modules or handle the current
?? ?? ?? ?? configuration file.

But answering NO, just brings me back to the same prompt.

What should I do?

Do you have a bootloader - grub2, grub1, lilo - installed?


It's a brand new plain vanila install, that I did from scratch .
So, I am assuming that the current default is grub2, right?
This machine was not upgraded, or anything like that, it was just
installed from teh CD, with all defaults, and apt-get updatetd
a time or two, and yesterday morning, when I went to do another
apt-get upgrade, I ran in to this issue.

How can I check to see what bootloader is installed?

I have  left this machine at this prompt, as I really don't
want to have to rebuild it from scratch, as i have 3+ days of setup
invested in it at this point in time.

You have somehow managed to install Ubuntu without a bootloader. Amazing! :)

(Amazing because I have never seen an option to do so in the Ubuntu installer.)

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