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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you,

Phill.

On 13 September 2012 04:50, Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <
> nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello All! Colin Watson has requested some help on testing some sensitive
> > grub changes. It of course is a delicate change as it has the potential
> to
> > break your system. Read his message below, and if you are able, please
> > report how the new grub works out for you.
> >
> >
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-September/035887.html
> >
> > This is a big change, migrating off of the heavily patched 1.99 grub
> that is
> > in precise and currently in quantal. This should fix things for people
> and
> > in general be a nice upgrade. Be careful however, and have a backup plan
> in
> > case you can no longer boot your system after installing. Feel free to
> pass
> > this along to anyone else who would be capable of contributing good
> results
> > on this. I wanted to get some initial testing results from you all before
> > unleashing to everyone, as the nature of this change could definitely
> break
> > people's boxes. Thanks!
> >
> > Nicholas
>
> Install Grub2 on two of my test boxes and sent cjwatson the results. Seems
> to work well no issues yet,
>
> greg nm_geo
>



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