Comment 9 for bug 580408

@ Colin Watson,

My greatest fear is that my ineptitude dealing with this bug will hold back the fix for #576724 which effected many, many more people. Most probably thousands!

I've tried the new version many different ways, but trying the old version I was never able to reproduce the abhorrent behavior described here. Even trying "echo SET grub-pc/install_devices /dev/ohdearnosuchdevice | sudo debconf-communicate" i never could reproduce the problem, or even get "The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present ...".

Now, I never did try my box with Windows on it but I think you said that wasn't necessary. Reading Flour's explanation I'm certainly not able to duplicate that behavior because I've never used the server version nor do I understand using a VM.

IMHO it would be a bloody shame to hold back this fix for #576724 because of a corner issue like this. I most recently tried this only upgrading the grub-pc and grub-common packages in Karmic to the new Lucid packages numerous ways and finally with a full upgrade.

I should be able to leave that installation in tact until I need to do iso and/or upgrade testing again.

I really want to see this update move from proposed to recommended :^)

If I can do anything to facilitate that just tell me, but be very detailed and I'll comply.