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Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 2:48 pm
by dolphin_oracle

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:18 pm
by dolphin_oracle
*bump*

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:35 pm
by Jerry3904
Bump?! It's excellent, as I already said on the YT channel. And everybody here appreciates that you put such thought into it and produced it so quickly.

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:37 pm
by fehlix
dolphin_oracle wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 2:48 pm
Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub
Nice video. And the user see und understand the red-mark cursor and see to use space-bar, tab-key and enterkey, incase they got prompted for an action. Btw. UEFI grub is also fully updated within my system incldung a new grubx64.efi is generated.
The prompts appear also if during post install grub "thinks" that same confiles have been changed, not only /etc/default/grub. But most user never touch those other anyway.
:puppy:

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:44 pm
by fehlix
Another comment. I think 3 day ago, we tried to test buster grub update together with Stevo, and we could only partly figure out how to avoid thos grub-update prompts to not confuse the user to much. And now we have your Video :number1: . Nothething to be worried anymore. Wow.Well done :happy:

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:16 pm
by dreamer
The ncurses promts can be avoided by doing updates in Synaptic. Then they show as normal GUI promts instead. Good video as always.

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:55 pm
by dolphin_oracle
dreamer wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:16 pm The ncurses promts can be avoided by doing updates in Synaptic. Then they show as normal GUI promts instead. Good video as always.
I think updating in mx-pi is the same as synaptic. we force the gnome frontend at install time.

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:03 pm
by dreamer
Your video showed weird looking prompts. I did the update in Synaptic and got the same prompts, but dressed as normal GTK dialogs.

EDIT: OK, MXPI, haven't tried that.

Re: Video: Debian 9.6 updates grub

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:08 pm
by dolphin_oracle
dreamer wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:03 pm Your video showed weird looking prompts. I did the update in Synaptic and got the same prompts, but dressed as normal GTK dialogs.

yes, the apt system can use one of several frontends for questions, which usually gets determined based on the environment apt is running in. in the case of synaptic, it uses the gnome (and/or possibly kde) frontends, and in the terminal/console gets a text (dialog?) front end. the updater tool does the actual upgrade in a terminal, so the text prompts get used.