[SWLUG] can't book after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.4...

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2010-06-08, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded one of my computers to Ubuntu 10.4. I'd already done
> this to my laptop using the Upgrade Manager & it worked fine, but for
> the desktop it asked me where I wanted to put grub so I just specified
> /dev/sda3 which is where my /boot is. However, now it won't boot:
> 
> Booting from local disk...
> GRUB loading.
> error: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found
> grub rescue>
> 
> I've tried typing 'help' at the prompt, but to no avail.
> 
> I'll download 10.4 & burn it onto a CD and try that way... unless
> anyone can suggest an easy fix?

I found instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
This explained how to reinstall grub from a live CD & after that I
rebooted & it worked:-)

Only downside is that Ubuntu 10.4 (i.e., _not_ Kubuntu) has some KDE
strigi thing that I don't want start up...


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