I had this on a Kubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 *upgrade*. On 10.04, grub was installed to my pata drive (which is set in bios to be the first boot device). I would think an upgrade would not actually perform a new grub installation.
My output of 'sudo debconf-show grub-pc' : grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: grub2/device_map_regenerated: * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK2035GSS_97BVFDRTS grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true grub-pc/disk_description: * grub2/linux_cmdline: grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet grub-pc/partition_description: grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed: * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/hidden_timeout: false grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true grub-pc/timeout: 10 the toshiba is the sata drive -- after upgrading from 10.04.1 (Server) and rebooting, grub error: "the symbol 'grub_xputs not found." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642925 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
