grub conflicts grub2

Christian Menzel christian.menzel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 22:43:36 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 23:54 +0200, Christian Menzel wrote:
>
> > Well,  the latest update wants to replace grub with grub2 and update
> > grub-efi.
> >
> >
> > I hesitate to execute the update, will EFI systems still boot?
>
> Yes, it should. grub-efi does not require grub; all the EFI bits are in
> grub-efi. Just having grub-efi installed should be enough for an EFI
> system to boot.
>
> (The intent of the recent changes is that when you update from an 'old'
> grub-only install, you'll get grub2 and grub-efi both installed to
> replace grub; this way ought to make sure that both BIOS and EFI systems
> have a viable bootloader package available).
>
>
OK, I did it! I had to remove grub and now have only grub-efi installed and
the system still boots :-)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/attachments/20111014/8da11a19/attachment.html 


More information about the test mailing list