Here's another strange fact:I've also experimented with a Grub live cd (Super grub 2disk) and a Grub recovery cd made with grub-mkrescue,they both have troubles finding the partitions on the disk.
There are three in total: /boot partition /root partition /swap partition all of them are primary. For some reason to detect all three takes several attempts,at first the ls command or the "detect any grub.cfg" in the case of Super grub 2disk only sees the root partition,then after repeated attempts the full disk layout is recognized and the system can be booted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311247 Title: [Grubenv] error: malformed file, press any key to continue To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/1311247/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs