I'm in the process of upgrading my mom's computer from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04. Like many others, I ran into the "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" problem, documented in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...2/+bug/1289977
I managed to get the system booting by booting an Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 live DVD, I had laying around, and running the Boot-Repair utility: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
I installed the Boor-Repair utility in the Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 live session. After the utility completed, I was able to successfully boot the system. As a sanity check, I shut the system down and attempted to boot it again. This second boot attempt failed and the system displayed a message it couldn't find a valid OS to boot and instructed me to insert proper boot media. I'll post the exact message I get, if it happens again.
Anyway, so I booted Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 a second time, re-installed and re-ran the Boot-Repair utility, and was able to successfully boot the system a second time. I haven't shut it down yet. I did run these commands, as mentioned in the bug report I mentioned above:
Code:
tom@computer:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
[sudo] password for tom:
dpkg-query: package 'grub-pc' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: grub-pc is not installed
tom@computer:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi
tom@computer:~$ sudo debconf-show grub-pc
grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet splash
grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed:
grub-pc/hidden_timeout: true
grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false
grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
grub2/device_map_regenerated:
grub-pc/partition_description:
grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false
grub-pc/disk_description:
grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true
grub2/linux_cmdline:
grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash
grub-pc/install_devices:
grub-pc/timeout: 10
grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true
tom@computer:~$ sudo debconf-show grub-efi
tom@computer:~$
My question: if the Boot-Repair utility was able to fix the grub2 issue such that I could boot the system successfully, any ideas as to why a shutdown and restart would result in an unsuccessful boot?
Thanks!
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