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

[Dick Bain]

On 8 June 2010 11:32, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> 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 have yet to upgrade from Jaunty(9.04) as both the newer versions
seem to have problems especially using grub2. I am seriously trying
different distros!


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