#1086840 remove grub-legacy support

Package:
src:grub-installer
Source:
src:grub-installer
Submitter:
Felix Zielcke
Date:
2024-12-25 16:48:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1086840#5
Date:
2024-11-06 14:07:15 UTC
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We finally want to get rid of grub-legacy in Debian.
It's now (in sid) only a transistional package depending on grub-pc.

There's MR!20 [0] by Pascal Homburg which completely removes the
grub-legacy parts of it.

[0] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/merge_requests/20
#1086840#12
Date:
2024-12-12 21:00:30 UTC
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Hi,

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> wrote (Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:07:15 +0100):

Does anyone still want to review this MR?

I did some testing with an mini.iso based on this merge request, and that
showed no problems with both BIOS and UEFI for current trixie installations.
So, if noone objects, I might be favor of merging this...


Holger
#1086840#17
Date:
2024-12-13 21:33:40 UTC
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Steve McIntyre wrote in #debian-efi that he would try to have a look,
but it was months ago.

Did you test only simple use cases (single disk, no other OS) or also
with multiple disks or other OSes ? Some changes affect these areas.
#1086840#22
Date:
2024-12-13 21:53:19 UTC
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Hi,

Am 13. Dezember 2024 22:33:40 MEZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>:

Multi-boot systems with up to 4 OS'es.
But only single disk.

Will test with multiple disks then ....


Holger
#1086840#27
Date:
2024-12-14 19:41:09 UTC
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Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote (Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:53:19 +0100):
trixie and sid all mixed together) on multi-disk (2 disks) worked fine here.


BTW - one glitch:
I have noticed, that the first (temporarily) os-prober run, which is executed
to determine if the installed machine is a multi-boot machine (and if therefore
os-prober should be run in the future automatically) detects all OS'es on the
machine (according to the syslog), but it does not show the OS names in the
UI dialog.
This is however only a cosmetic issue; continuing the installation process
shows the OS names in the second os-prober run just fine, and leads to a
GRUB menu with all 3 OS'es correctly set up.
See the attached screenshots of the two os-prober runs.
However, I could verify this behaviour in current daily built images as
well, so this is nothing, what the "remove grub-legacy support" changes
can be made responsible for...


So all good on the "remove grub-legacy support" front IMO.


Holger
#1086840#32
Date:
2024-12-14 20:18:00 UTC
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Thank you for testing.

I think this (and other glitches) is addressed by
<https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/merge_requests/16>
#1086840#37
Date:
2024-12-25 16:45:13 UTC
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This has been merged shortly.