I can't help any more than the docs with installing on a partition rather than the mbr, but I can testify that you don't need to do much to keep booting with grub when you change kernels. And that's the only thing that would make a difference in the upgrade from testing to unstable.
(although, if a new version of grub comes out you won't be actually using it unless you run update-grub or grub-install again) Hans * Glen Wagley [Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 22:44 -0700] <quote> > After many meetings with Art Moore, lots of soda, and a few laughs, I > decided to install Debian. Ok, I'm kidding but I did finally install > Debian. I went with the stable release just to get started. I'm having > to dual-boot this machine for certain spouse-related reasons. Now that > I have Debian, I need Grub installed. I just ran apt-get install grub > and got it but I haven't configured it. I would like to install grub on > the first sector where I have debian. I guess I don't understand the > grub docs well enough to see how to do this. The partition is > /dev/hda6. What do I need to do? Also, after I get grub working, do I > need to go back and tweak anything with grub when I apt-get dist-upgrade > to unstable? > -Glen > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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