Sure enough, just as soon as I had posted the above, a new GRUB2 package entered the Precise mirror and it works:
Setting up grub-common (1.99-16ubuntu1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ... Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/grub ... Setting up grub2-common (1.99-16ubuntu1) ... Setting up grub-pc-bin (1.99-16ubuntu1) ... Setting up grub-pc (1.99-16ubuntu1) ... Installation finished. No error reported. Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-18-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-18-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-17-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found iPXE image : /boot/ipxe.lkrn No volume groups found done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911225 Title: grub-update: bad 'grep' and 'lvs' invocations To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/911225/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
