Worse problem with upgrading 12.04 to 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 5 September 2014 09:44, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> 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,
> 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.

So are you saying it is not the problem described in the bug?

Colin