[xubuntu-users] Boot Warning

[Rob Ward]

Cheers Ralph,
The message no longer appears, thank you....

so

/sudo nano /etc/default/gru//b/

and altering this line to

/GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true//
///
has worked.

It was hard to see a clear authoritative voice in the Google hits.  Many 
were too vague..

However this mailing list has shone through it all!  Thanks folks.

Just as an aside: I have no idea what I have done, any links that can 
illuminate the mysteries of Grub?

*Rob Ward*
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On 02/05/15 15:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
>
> Code: [Select]
>
> # 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.
>

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