Bump. I can attest that this symptom is present in release Lucid. I performed an over-the-wire upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. On reboot, got the "symbol `grub_puts_' not found" error. Interestingly, although there are two SATA HDs in this machine (one spinning media, one solid-state), the BIOS enumerates the SSD first, the BIOS boots off the SSD, the grub rescue mode enumerates the SDD as (hd0), and the 2.6.32-22 boot files are at (hd0,1)/boot. When the upgrade was running, /dev/sda was the SDD. I don't find any way that the grub install/setup during the upgrade could have become confused about which drive was supposed to get grub installed on it, nor any evidence that the drive enumeration would have changed. (The spinning disk, sdb, a.k.a. (hd1), has my 5.somtething - 9.04 repeatedly over-the-wire upgraded image and files, which is still attached since I'm not convinced I have all my settings transferred over...) (time passes) Huh. Booting from the spinning disk gets a grub2 style menu that can boot into 10.04 on sda. Now how do I fix it so grub's in the right MBR? (time passes) Trying "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda" as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708 , linked by Jack Fariss (#14). Reboot. Change BIOS boot order to boot the SDD (sda, hd0) first again. Reboot. Success!
So, for no apparent reason the 10.04 upgrade seems to have pushed grub onto the MBR of 10.04 or possibly the lingering 9.04 grub on sdb's MBR was able to find the 10.04 images and boot them. Either way... -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
