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lelandnielsen
July 16th, 2011, 03:57 AM
Hello all,
I attempted to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10. Upon restarting, I was presented this message:



error: the symbol 'grub_xputs' not found.
grub rescue>


I poked around the forums and found several posts that would probably be helpful but... I am unable to boot from a USB nor can I burn a Live CD as my other computer is a netbook. I made USB first boot in BIOS, but no luck.

So, my weekend project is to figure out how to work around this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Blasphemist
July 16th, 2011, 04:09 AM
Have you looked at this and how to work from that grub rescue prompt in section 8? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

I've used that and it worked for me but I had a different issue. I didn't search on your particular error but if this doesn't help you get booted please do post back with detail of what you can tell from this troubleshooting info.