[Bug 423448] [NEW] [Karmic] Today's update of grub-pc left my computer non-bootable

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Thu Sep 3 08:21:05 UTC 2009


*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 408699 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/408699

Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 22:40 +0000 schrieb seasoned_geek:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> I applied the 50 updates KPackageKit said needed to be applied today.
> After playing swat-the-mole clicking on APT failures I made the mistake
> of trying to do an orderly reboot.  The GRUB-PC upgrade broke my
> machine.  It will not boot.
> 
> symbol 'grub_zalloc' not found.
> 
> I don' t know how to operate from the GRUB_RECOVERY> prompt.
> 
> I had to file this bug report from a Windows PC.
> 

You must run grub-install on the device/disk you use for booting.
The embed core.img is now out of sync with the rest of /boot/grub.

Here's a guide how to do it from a Livecd like the Ubuntu one:
http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide


** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 408699
   karmic " 'grub_zalloc' not found " after update

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[Karmic] Today's update of grub-pc left my computer non-bootable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423448
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