Strange Grub Problem / Error Message

Tab Gilbert tabbox at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 14:10:13 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 00:25, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I just got a Cruzer Micro Flash Drive. Cranked up the Vista partition to
> > check to see if it had U3 installed, which I intended to nuke. Rebooted
> and
> > got a strange error message.
>
> > GRUB loading.
> > Ho:)' not found?yl??*1?
> > Aborted. Press any key to exit.
>
> WAG: Is the Cruzer plugged in when you get this error?
>
> Yes, it was.  I finally just stuck in a Live CD,  copied everything to the
new Cruzer and did a reinstall of Ubuntu.  Cranked right up like it suppose
to after that.  It was unless to google those symbols in Ho:)' not
found?yl??*1?.  I do think the Cruzer had something to do with the Grub
corruption.  But that suspicion is probably due to a wrangle with U3 and
Ubuntu on another machine.

Thanks for the response anyway. :)

tab
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