Update Pack 5 and Grub

[mark1mint]

I see that the release notes for Update Pack 5 list this note about Grub

When asked where to set up Grub, make sure to choose your current grub location

now,since I have a multi-boot set up with two disks,at the time of the install I choose not to install Grub (if I recall exactly what I did ) and let the other disk control the boot process:what am I supposed to do now? Is the option to not install Grub also present in the Update Pack 5 dialog ? I wouldn't want to install it incorrectly and end up with a non-bootable system,of course.

[sobrus]

Yes, you can ommit installing GRUB by not selecting any disk or clicking "cancel" (I don't remember exactly).
But you don't have to install it for sure (It even warns you if you try to skip it).

[mark1mint]

Thanks I've just updated and the question as to where install Grub didn't even pop up (as far as I can tell),it did spit out an error message probably when it didn't find the Grub install where it expected to be (as I've said,this being a two-disks,multi-boot set up the Grub install that controls everything is on the other disk),in the end everything apparently is OK,I can still boot in every system that I have installed,nothing is broken

[sobrus]

Strange - I have 3 disks and 2 OSes and GRUB was installed.
It even detected Windows on second disk (although I didn't want it to do so - I can boot windows from bios boot menu anyway).

[mark1mint]

Yes you're right,it did actually detect all installed systems on both disks,and (as far as I can tell) apparently also generated a new grub.cfg file,but never asked where to install Grub,which was all good to me.

[mark1mint]

One thing that I've just observed:before the update,MintDebian was listed on my Grub menu as
Linux Mint Debian Edition (1)
whereas now I have these two entries (actually four,when considering recovery mode also):
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64:
-is this the way the Grub menu is supposed to look after the update ?

[Mr.Hr1e]

I have the same problem. I was just looking for some answers and found your post. First of all why 2 of them and second, I dont even need those for recovery. I like it simple and clean.

[squeezy]

One thing that I've just observed:before the update,MintDebian was listed on my Grub menu as
Linux Mint Debian Edition (1)
whereas now I have these two entries (actually four,when considering recovery mode also):
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64:
-is this the way the Grub menu is supposed to look after the update ?

Not sure about the name change, but you have both these entries becasue they are different kernel versions. Note the 3.2.0-3 and 3.2.0-2 variation.

I have the same problem. I was just looking for some answers and found your post. First of all why 2 of them and second, I dont even need those for recovery. I like it simple and clean.

To remove the recovery options, edit /etc/default/grub and remove the comment marker from this line, like so:

Code: Select all

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

If you don't want grub to detect other OSes installed, like Windows, remove the package called os-prober.