Trusty to get a beta version of Grub.

[grahammechanical]

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

Please ensure that you have rescue media to hand before starting testing. The simplest way to upgrade is to enable trusty-proposed, upgrade ONLY packages whose names start with "grub" (e.g. use "apt-get dist-upgrade" to show the full list, say no to the upgrade, and then pass all the relevant package names to "apt-get install"), and then (very important!) disable trusty-proposed again. Provided that there were no errors in this process, you should be safe to reboot. If there were errors, you should be able to downgrade back to 2.00-22 (or 1.27+2.00-22 in the case of grub-efi-amd64-signed).

Regards.

[The Cog]

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.

[Elfy]

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...

~If you happen to have any of the xubuntu team ppa's enabled - there is a bit of flux going on at the moment

[The Cog]

~If you happen to have any of the xubuntu team ppa's enabled - there is a bit of flux going on at the moment

No special PPAs enabled, mate.

Maybe I'm just not being very observant. If nobody else has noticed anything similar then I'm inclined to let it pass as a problem with the nut on the chair at this end.

[ventrical]

I used synaptic. Worked just fine. No font change. Only difference I noticed was an '*' preceeding the entries in the GRuB menu.

I wonder if this will prevent Windows 8 bootloader from overwriting GRuB during an install and not having to use GRuB Rescueto get back a previously installed ubuntu partition?

Regards..

[Elfy]

well ... that went horribly wrong, ended up in rescue mode and then busybox

installed fine

commented in bug

No special PPAs enabled, mate.

I sent gremlin out earlier for a walk - perhaps she found you

[mc4man]

The simplest way to upgrade is to enable trusty-proposed, upgrade ONLY packages whose names start with "grub" (e.g. use "apt-get dist-upgrade" to show the full list, say no to the upgrade, and then pass all the relevant package names to "apt-get install"), and then (very important!) disable trusty-proposed again. Provided that there were no errors in this process, you should be safe to reboot. If there were errors, you should be able to downgrade back to 2.00-22 (or 1.27+2.00-22 in the case of grub-efi-amd64-signed).

Seems a bit convoluted to me, I simply go

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

If it checks out then remove the -s & do for real

[ventrical]

Seems a bit convoluted to me, I simply go

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

If it checks out then remove the -s & do for real

Is there a

sudo apt-get install --only-downgrade grub*

?

regards..

[mc4man]

Is there a

sudo apt-get install --only-downgrade grub*

?

regards..

no

[ventrical]

no

@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..