Worse problem with upgrading 12.04 to 14.04

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 15:08:40 UTC 2014


On 4 September 2014 15:44, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> Today I encountered an even worse problem with upgrading.
> I upgraded another system (my wife´s) and ended after booting with the ¨grub
> rescue¨.
> Googling for this problem it seems that it still not has been solved. Only
> some workarounds are given, but I assume that these will drive laymen (and I
> assume that is the bulk of the ubuntu users) immediately back to M$W.
> This problem exists at least since the first release of this version (april)
> and is still not solved
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977).
> The problem does´nt occur with all systems and I don´t know what exactly the
> reason is why it occurs with some updates (my wife´s system) and others not
> (mine).
> It seems that solving the problem using the Super Grub Disk make the problem
> disappears The reason seems to be the difference between grub 2.00 and grub
> 2.02. But I think it a very serious problem!!
> I don´t have the Super grub disk so I have to find another way. Hopefully
> someone else has figured exactly out where the problem is and can give me
> the solution for a work around as the solutions given does´nt work (although
> I haven tried all).

Are you seeing the message shown in the bug (symbol
'grub_term_highlight_color' not found)?  If not then it is a different
problem.

Colin



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