installing Grub2 on Trisquel 3.01

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in0giro
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ahoy all,

i see that GRUB2 is available in the Trisquel 3.01 repositories. i was going to install GRUB2 to help simplify a multi-boot setup with Trisquel, however instaling GRUB2 requires that some seemingly core packages are removed, such as trisquel and trisquel-base. just wondering if someone had a solution for installing GRUB2 without having this happen.

thanks

flop

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I have read that updating from Grub1 to Grub2 is a dangerous operation on a previous working installation -Ubuntu, in fact, avoids updating Grub when you update from 9.04 to 9.10-. Are you sure that it is not going to cause you problems?

in0giro
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it definitely can leave you with no easy way to boot, but i did
not think it was dangerous. one just needs to be careful and make
sure one understands the process first. i simply installed GRUB2
from a Gentoo installation on another partition. it was very easy
and i think GRUB2 is much better than GRUB so far, especially the os-
prober, which lets GRUB2 find and list any other bootable options
from a single operating system.

peace, w

On Jan 19, 2010, at 6:41 PM, name at domain wrote:

> I have read that updating from Grub1 to Grub2 is a dangerous
> operation on a previous working installation -Ubuntu, in fact,
> avoids updating Grub when you update from 9.04 to 9.10-. Are you
> sure that it is not going to cause you problems?
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flop

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Probably "dangerous" was not the right word, I just meant that it could cause you problems and leave you without a way to boot, but I see you know what you are talking about ;)

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On Jan 22, 2010, at 6:25 AM, name at domain wrote:

> Probably "dangerous" was not the right word, I just meant that it
> could cause you problems and leave you without a way to boot, but I
> see you know what you are talking about ;)

well, i would not say I know what i am talking about ;) good luck.

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