Statler ate my GRUB!

There's no bug there. Both systems have grub installed so whenever the package is updated they'll reinstall it to the MBR.
Maybe you could uninstall grub from one of them and run update grub from the other so it picks the first.

Just to be sure I'll do it here (I have a similar setup) and report back.
(anyway, what I have been doing is keeping grub-pc and grub-common on hold in one of the systems so it's updated in only one of them)

Next time you have to install another system, just don't install grub. Running update-grub from your main system should pick the newly installed os.

Last edited by wuy (2010-12-06 22:11:25)

Neither one nor the other.
You originally installed both to the MBR so whenever they're updated they're reinstalled to that location.

I did purge grub from one of my systems and also asked it to remove all configuration files (it gives you an option and defaults to 'no'). The other system picked it fine, only I haven't any way to tweak the parameters for the system without grub anymore AFAIK except directly from the menu screen (like for resolution, extra parameters etc.).

So what you can do is remove grub from one of your systems (apt-get remove grub-pc grub-common), leaving its configuration files so you can still use them to set whatever you like and you run update-grub from the other system when you need to.

Last edited by wuy (2010-12-06 22:39:42)