<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_7966"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8137">For the record, I did transcribe the wording from the dialog box as carefully as I could. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8035"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8036"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8221">And as I reported, once I made the wild guess that "space" was the key to select, everything worked. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8361"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8223"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8222">Next step, as discussed will be to use apt-get to remove the installed firefox* and then re-install. It is obviously the only package that has not been updated.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8358"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8212" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8210">There remains a small question about why some other packages are not at exactly the same version as I found searching at: <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8209" class="" href="https://packages.debian.org/">https://packages.debian.org/</a>.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8357"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8286" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8356">For the next couple of days, as mentioned in previous email, I will be doing radio things and the free air waves for my communications.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8338" dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Thanks for the advice.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8379" dir="ltr"><span>Paul</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_7995" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8384" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8383" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8382" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8381" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8380" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8386"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529685256503_8385" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 22, 2018 12:16 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] upgrade and grub<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>[Posting this anyway, because it's already written, just after seeing<br clear="none">your 'SOLVED' posting.]<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Quick tip: Putting the exact text of an error message, sometimes<br clear="none">prefixed by the name of your distro, sometimes finds useful things. <br clear="none">In this case:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> debian The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That _usually_ helps. In this case, not a lot of the search results are<br clear="none">Debian-relevant. There are a bunch that are about Ubuntu on Amazon EC2,<br clear="none">for example. I see one that offers some general guidance:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://debian-handbook.info/browse/squeeze/sect.config-bootloader.html" target="_blank">https://debian-handbook.info/browse/squeeze/sect.config-bootloader.html</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Among the things it mentions in passing is that recent Debian releases<br clear="none">have packaged both GRUB v2 _and_ the generally more popular GRUB v1 <br clear="none">that has lately been dubbed 'grub-legacy'. (Confusingly, GRUB v1<br clear="none">releases have actual version _numbers_ in the 0.xx range.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In Debian 8 'jessie':<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-pc" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-pc </a> (This package is GRUB2.)<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-legacy" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-legacy</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Package 'grub' is _also_ present, but merely as a virtual package that<br clear="none">resolves to grub-legacy. <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I infer that unless you went rather far out of your way, what you have<br clear="none">installed is GRUB v1, probably GRUB v. 0.97, provided by package<br clear="none">'grub-legacy'.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">If reading<br clear="none">https://debian-handbook.info/browse/squeeze/sect.config-bootloader.html,<br clear="none">carefully note that some sections (such as 8.8.3) are specific to GRUB2, <br clear="none">and some (such as the next section, 8.8.4) are specific to GRUB v1 aka<br clear="none">grub-legacy.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And there's this:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://debian.wayoflinux.com/installing/post-install/fix-common-issues/reinstall-grub" target="_blank">http://debian.wayoflinux.com/installing/post-install/fix-common-issues/reinstall-grub</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Apparently, the Official Debian installer disks now include a 'rescue<br clear="none">mode' option offering suboption 'Reinstall GRUB boot loader', which is<br clear="none">detailed on that page (in case you run into trouble).<div class="yqt4081078625" id="yqtfd01346"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>