Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 02:48 +0000 schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker: > > I´ve made a clean instalation of kubuntu 9.10 in a dell inspiron 1545 > machine, with windows 7. > The instalation was quite easy without any problems. I could install some > programs like netbeans, firefox, compiz, mysql, > and the machine worked fine several days, with this dual boot configuration. > After a regular apt-get update, grub 1.974 beta was updated to grub2... then > the system failed to start, giving this: > Grub loading. > The symbol ' ' not found. > Aborted. Press any key... > > and after that, I could not anymore use the laptop, cause after press any > key, got the same message, then tried again and the system reboot, and shows > the message again - infinite loop. > I´ve reinstalled kubuntu 9.10 with the live cd, and now it's working, but I > see the update info about the grub 2 and I am scared to update the system and > lose my access again. > Are there any way to update the system, includind the grub package, without > have this behaviour?
Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and select with space and arrow keys the right device where it should get installed to. I.e. the disk your BIOS boots from. Or just choose all if you don't mind to overwrite all MBRs with GRUB 2. Strange though that it says that a space is the symbol it couldn't find. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- Grub loading. The symbol ' ' not found. Aborted. Press any key... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
