GRUB badly broken during upgrade

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Update: I researched GRUB a little. I can now get the grub rescue to
> restore its 'normal' module, and boot a rescue kernel, which I can get
> into a root console session of the just-upgraded Ubuntu.
> NOTE: here's where I'm really glad I give root a password.  The kernel
> requires a root password for this to work.

Please don't pollute the list with nonsense regarding single user mode
and enabling root in Ubuntu (for the second time).

You're being prompted for root's password because you've enabled root.
If root's password's locked, you get a root prompt directly.