Worse problem with upgrading 12.04 to 14.04

J.L. Blom joep at neuroweave.nl
Fri Sep 5 08:44:34 UTC 2014


On 04/09/14 17:08, Colin Law wrote:
> 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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>> Joep
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Colin,
Thanks for the reply. I was yestrday away. I think you´re right. But 
that does´nt solve the problem. I will look at the start sequence maybe 
grub has been installed on the wrong disk (or the disk sequence has been 
changed) using a rescue USB-stick.
Joep






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