Your message dated Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:55:37 -0400 (EDT) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1110934: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #520028, regarding grub2: Grub MBR and Vista to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grub2 Severity: minor on page /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/html/grub_3.html#SEC7 it reports backing up of mbr is not necessary as fdisk can be used on dos. Vista does not have dos so the mbr backup method should be emphasized. I think the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 method blanks out mbr but not sure if saved copy should be the 'dd' back. I changed from dual boot vista debian to debian in vbox in vista but made mistake of not removing grub from mbr and stage 1.5 halted. Tried creating /boot/ partition on unallocated space (which windows always has) and installed boot to get grub shell. From grub shell issued: rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 boot Had vista going again but had to locate a free vista recovery disc on internet to reset mbr as command line no longer has fdisk in vista! -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU)
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--- Begin Message ---Apologies; this wasn't sent as part of the dak rm action. I'm doing this by hand. Since this was manual, this opens the chance for me taking action by mistake. I got the list of bugs via UDD, and am closing via -close on BCC. I spot checked about 10 of the bugs, and they're all src:grub. The COUNT matches the tracker page, so I'm sending this. If I have closed a bug that's not about bin:grub or src:grub, please do re-open the bug. paultag We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following package(s) have been removed from unstable: grub | 0.97-84 | source grub-legacy | 0.97-84 | amd64, i386 ------------------- Reason ------------------- ROM; dead upstream, replaced by grub2 ---------------------------------------------- Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug. The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is really needed, please contact them if this should be the case. We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected]. The full log for this bug can be viewed at https://bugs.debian.org/1110934 This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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