grub rescue

[Javier Gardeazabal]

On Thursday, 6 de May de 2010 13:51:56 Goh Lip wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2010 13:19:23 +0200
>
> Javier Gardeazabal <javier.gardeazabal at ehu.es> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just updated my kubuntu distro
> > to the new KUbuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx.
> > After initialization I get
> >
> > GRUB loading.
> > error: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found
> > grub rescue>
> >
> > and the OS does not load.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Best
> > javier
>
> If you have a grub rescue cd, boot into lucid and at terminal
> sudo update-grub
> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>
> If you don't have grub rescue cd. boot livecd and follow instructions
> from
> http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide
>
> regards - Goh Lip

Hi there

I booted from a livecd and typed

sudo fdisk -l 
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt 
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev 
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc 
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys 
sudo chroot /mnt 
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg 
grub-install /dev/sda 

This returned no errors.
After this I typed
 
Ctrl+D (to exit out of chroot) 
sudo umount /mnt/dev 
sudo umount /mnt

I rebooted my system and this time I got

"Gave up wiating for root device. Common problems:
   - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
     - check rootdelay= (did the system wait for long enugh?)
     - check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
  - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/91276d9a-60fb-42ae-8846-18dc1f7def3 does not exist. 
Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)

 (initramfs)

Do you guys have any idea?

Best
javier