On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:12:58AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote: > Installer used on 27/06/2010 to install squeeze, which failed to install > grub-2, then failed to revert to grub-legacy, so I used dd to copy > /dev/zero to the disc and started again, attempting to install > grub-legacy. The installer informed me that it was doing an automatic > update to grub-2, which failed. The syslog showed > Jun 28 05:49:48 grub-installer: Unrecognized option `-y' > Jun 28 05:49:48 grub-installer: error: Running 'update-grub -y' failed.
I fixed this bug over a year ago in the squeeze installer; see the changelog for grub-installer 1.38, uploaded on 12 June 2009. Are you attempting to use a lenny installer to install squeeze? This won't work well. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org