Trusty to get a beta version of Grub.

[zika]

@mc4man

what would be a reasonable equivalent. I used synaptic and it worked well but your method seems more economically designed and I am just curious as to what code in terminal could be used to downgrade .etc..

„No“ was the answer to proposed command as that switch does not exist. Downgrading is possible, of course in many ways, and is, also, very easy... Once You have a plan and know what You want. Command dependes only on Your needs and wishes...

[grahammechanical]

A little more information from Colin Watson's blog on this Grub 2.02 version and his motivation.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/uc...rub-2.02-beta2

Regards.

[ventrical]

„No“ was the answer to proposed command as that switch does not exist. Downgrading is possible, of course in many ways, and is, also, very easy... Once You have a plan and know what You want. Command dependes only on Your needs and wishes...

I'll | use | synaptic.

thnx

[Cavsfan]

Successful boot here on proposed grub 2.0b2. AMD64, sataII disk with msdos partition table and Xubuntu on logical partition.

But:
The font on my desktop icons has changed. Is that possible, even?
Maybe it was another recent update that changed the background behind the icon font change and I didn't notice before. Hmm...

One thing is that I chose to keep my modified /etc/default/grub because it had this line added:
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1920x1200
Now I'm wondering if I missed any important change in that file.

I just installed it via mc4man's way although it looked like it picked the i386 files instead of AMD64 files.

sudo apt-get -s  install --only-upgrade grub*

I took the newer version of /etc/default/grub: if you are interested here is the original new file.
I will just set this up GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200-24

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

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

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

Now let's see how well it likes being customized.

[Cavsfan]

Made a few changes to /etc/default/grub rebooted and the only change I saw was a asterisk beside the selection.

I did notice that grub-install -v no longer works to provide the version number:

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ grub-install -v
grub-install: info: executing modprobe efivars 2>/dev/null.
grub-install: info: Looking for /sys/firmware/efi ...
grub-install: info: ... not found. Looking for /proc/device-tree ...
grub-install: info: ... not found.
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: install device isn't specified.

grub-install -V (capital V) provides the version now.

I also noticed that grub-pc-bin only comes in i386 and not 64 bit at the present.

[Cavsfan]

We need the proposed repository enabled and we get Grub 2.02~beta2-2 instead of Grub 2.00-22. I do not know of any benefits but at least it did not break the boot.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/g...untu-14-04-lts

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ry/037978.html


Regards.

The bug mentioned in that 2nd link pulls in the period and therefore goes no where.
Here is the bug, which I subscribed to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...2/+bug/1269992

[QDR06VV9]

grub-probe -V 
grub-probe (GRUB) 2.02~beta2-5

Grub gets upgraded in Todays Updates!
Was a little nervous because I have 6 partitions on just this machine.
All is Good!

[Cavsfan]

grub-probe -V 
grub-probe (GRUB) 2.02~beta2-5

Grub gets upgraded in Todays Updates!
Was a little nervous because I have 6 partitions on just this machine.
All is Good!

I got the update too, all went well and can I see in SPM that they are indeed in the regular updates.
Just curious about why it said it was building for i386-pc when I have amd64.

[Cavsfan]

A little bit of an update from Colin Watson.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/uc...xom/2014/01/18

[QDR06VV9]

Just curious about why it said it was building for i386-pc when I have amd64.

Thats the part that had me a bit apprehensive
But I always have my handy boot-repair at the ready
Oh the link in your second post(from Colin Watson) was a good read.