karmic 9.10 Alpha 6 - grub issue

[Gordon Hopper]

Not sure if you got a response to this already.  I didn't see anything
on the list.

Take a look at /boot/grub/grubenv .  If this file is missing or
corrupt, try "sudo grub-editenv /boot/grub/grubenv create"

Regards,

Gordon



On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Simeon A Layne Jr
<Simeon_A_Layne_Jr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>        I have been testing the alpha code for 2 weeks and this issue is one
> that i haven;t seen mentioned or maybe i didn't perform the proper
> search.  Here is the problem, at boot time from the laptop i have the
> software installed on, i get this message:
>
> Invalid environment block
>
> Grub will not boot the karmic install, but it will boot my Vista
> partition.  I currently do the following to use the system but this is
> getting old, I boot from a Jaunty 9.04 usb drive where i had already
> modified the boot menu to include the laptop's karmic OS partition.  The
> karmic partition is obviously functional but the grub 2.0? is not
> pleased with something in the environment?
>
> Attempts to fix this have not resulted in success.  I have run the
> following:
>
> 1st try...
> sudo -s
> update-grub
> reboot
>
> Nope
> 2nd try...
> Reinstalled all grub components from synapetic...
> sudo -s
> update-grub
> reboot
>
> Nope
> 3rd try
> sudo -s
> grub-install /dev/sda
> update-grub
> update-initramfs -k all -u
> reboot
>
> No luck on resolving this issue.  Ant suggestions?
>
> System info: fomr uname -a
> Linux 8thdaydev-LINUX 2.6.31-11-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 25
> 06:37:23 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I usually update the system at least twice a day as updates are fast and
> furious.  I really love the look and feel of karmic and the performance
> is sweet, but i do understand alpha as I write code for other stuff at
> some other place.  I really don't know the best way to report this to
> the karmic team, i figured you could advise.
>
> Included is the dmesg log if that might help...
>
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