[Bug 778059] Re: Upgrade to Natty renders computer unbootable

[Dave Basener]

Hi.  Loading my old Compaq Presario with Ubuntu 12.04 caused my Grub
menu to not show up, but only after I added the 300+ waiting updates and
rebooted.  Ubuntu still booted, but the Grub menu was not displayed.  By
the wait time I am guessing that grub executed properly and was waiting
for a selection - without one it just went ahead with the default.  As I
said, I am guessing - no evidence.

I followed the steps at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10778491&postcount=55 for a 32
bit machine.  After steps 1 and 2 did not make any difference, I
performed step 3 and the Grub menu now shows and is operational.

I am attaching my hardwareprofile.txt as requested.

And, thank you for the fix.  This sort of thing is one of the reasons
OSS is so much better than the pay-for-support alternatives.  With those
I would still be 6 months shy of just convincing them that there was a
problem.


** Attachment added: "hardwareprofile.txt"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/778059/+attachment/3250379/+files/hardwareprofile.txt

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Title:
  Upgrade to Natty renders computer unbootable

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  After upgrading to 11.04, after rebooting grub left me at the grub
  rescue> prompt with the message 'error: unknown filesystem'.

  I tried purging and reinstalling grub using a live-cd following this
  guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099 but no joy.

  See the following thread:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1746825

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu May  5 19:53:49 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-05 (0 days ago)

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