[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:34:47PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>    I could not find the email from over a month back, and I did not see
> anything amongst the current bug reports, it was probably sent to the debian
> installer list (but may have been a temporary bug). I tried to upgrade a box
> from the current stable to testing and it stopped part way through. I
> decided to re-install from scratch using the original partition layout but
> it would not boot until I re-partitioned without the /boot partition. There
> were plenty of problems reported updating from grub to grub2, which may now
> be sorted.

I know the grub-install program used to have problems with a separate
boot partition; maybe you ran into that.  Don't know if they ever fixed
it; I just use the setup or install commands from within the grub shell.

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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