[xubuntu-users] Boot Warning

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 01 May 2015 20:52:18 -0400, JMZ wrote:
>On 05/01/2015 07:21 PM, Rob Ward wrote:
>> But when my machine is booting, before the splash screens, I get
>> this message..
>>
>> Error: malformed file press any key to continue
>>
>This is quite a facile answer, but maybe your kernel is corrupted in 
>some way.

What does indicate that the kernel might be corrupted?
My first guess is, that it's a GRUB issue. What messages appear before
this message appears and is waiting for pressing a key? Perhaps only
GRUB messages are shown. I suspect that the splash screen does hide
upstart messages, so "booting" hasn't started, since no splash screen
appeared. Assumed booting should have started, then we should care
about log files. However, I googled "malformed file press any key to
continue". And my guess, based on the fact that no splash screen
appeared, that GRUB might be the culprit, seems to be not that bad.

"edit /etc/default/grub and add:

# If you want to enable the save default function, uncomment the
following # line, and set GRUB_DEFAULT to saved.
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

After saving the file update grub:

sudo update-grub" -
http://askubuntu.com/questions/473230/malformed-file-warning-on-boot

"Error solved (i should work on my patience when using the search
function ^-^)

Commenting this out in /etc/default/grub fixed it for me.

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# If you want to enable the save default function, uncomment the
following # line, and set GRUB_DEFAULT to saved.
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true" -
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=12635.0

Even without my guess that GRUB likely is the culprit, just searching
the web for "malformed file press any key to continue" resulted in tons
of hits. It takes less then one minute.

>> Having done the obligatory Google searches I can't find a strong
>> lead.

So you tried GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true already yourself and it didn't
solve the issue?

JFTR GRUB and GRBU2 are known to be poor bootloaders. A lot of
experienced *nix users don't use it. I'm using it anyway, but I don't
upgrade it. IMO there's no need to upgrade GRUB. There's no drawback
and the advantage is, that you won't get a buggy update.