On Mon 28 Jun, Colin Watson wrote: > > 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. >
As stated, I was using the 5.04 businesscard ISO which I thought downloaded the correct installer components. I will try the weekly image unless you recommend the daily image. Please close the bug report. -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk (was www.overview.demon.co.uk) Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org