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refo
March 27th, 2010, 11:18 AM
Hello,

I am running Ubuntu both native and on virtualbox on windows XP host.
The problem apeared when upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. System boots perfectly WinXP and Ubuntu. But the problem appears when I try to boot linux on virtual box. Following is the grub error:

GRUB loading.
error: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found
grub rescue> _

I've tried to boot from alternate CD and "update-grub2" but the problem still appears.

On my office Notebook (which is absolutely the same HP nc6320) I've installed ubuntu 10.04 from scratch and it is working.

Could anyone suggest me what this message means?

Thanks in advance

Refo

stlsaint
March 27th, 2010, 11:30 AM
Though i have not done it myself it sounds as if you need reinstall grub in wubi. This may help some.
Grub2 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275)

refo
March 27th, 2010, 11:52 AM
Though i have not done it myself it sounds as if you need reinstall grub in wubi. This may help some.
Grub2 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275)

10x for replay but I am using virtualbox on WinXP host and Ubuntu on virtial mchine
I don't thing there is something related to wubi.

stlsaint
March 27th, 2010, 12:03 PM
OK but have you tried reinstalling grub on the vbox machine ubuntu guest.

refo
March 27th, 2010, 12:11 PM
I've tried update-grub2

stlsaint
March 27th, 2010, 12:15 PM
updating and reinstalling are two different procedures. Please see the grub2 link on my signature for full step-by-step to re-install grub.

refo
March 27th, 2010, 12:18 PM
Yes, thanks a lot.
I've just reinstalled it using alternate CD and it boots fine.

stlsaint
March 27th, 2010, 12:24 PM
Glad to help.