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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Updating Ubuntu without removing grub-efi

Ubuntu still is trying to remove grub-efi everytime a new kernel arrives. I have a Mac Mini without a display, so grub-pc is useless for me, so how do I prevent this grub-efi removal all the time?

Simple solution, just tell apt you also want to install grub-efi, regardless of the availability of a new version:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-pae grub-efi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grub-efi is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic-pae linux-image-generic-pae
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-doc-2.6.35 linux-source-2.6.35 linux-tools
Recommended packages:
grub-pc grub lilo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic-pae
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-generic-pae linux-image-generic-pae
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 34.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 107MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?


And voila, grub-pc is a suggested package and no longer forced upon me! Thanks go out to Frank Groeneveld for suggesting the solution!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yep, it works :)