GRUB 10.04 MacBook /dev/sd3 (NEED HELP!!)

[patg7590]

Hey everyone, I am pretty stuck. After spending days in the IRC rooms to no avail, practically getting booted out of #grub (pun intended), I finally stumbled across this.

My Macbook Pro 4,1 has a 500GB drive that looks like this:

/dev/sda1-EFI-fat32-200mb
/dev/sda2-HFS+-OSX 10.6.3
unallocated-200mb
/dev/sda3-NTFS-WINDOWS7PROX64
/dev/sda5-ext4-UBUNTU studio x64
/dev/sda6-linux swap

Note the lack of an sda4. I don't know why this is. This is just what I see in Gparted.

I had refit installed and working, everything worked great.

Until the update to Lucid....

I ran update-manager -d from terminal, everything went fine. and then when I restarted...

grub: error: symbol 'image_puts_' not found

I tried booting to a Live CD to resinstall grub, followed the steps, but I cannot get it to install;

NOTE YOU NEED A 64bit LIVE CD IF YOU WANT TO GET PAST CHROOT STEP ON 64 BIT MACHINES.

I get the error about blocklists and force. I'm a moron, so I tried force, i tried putting grub on /dev/sda4 i tried /sda. I got nowhere. Someone please help me.

Thanks. I'm _pg_ on IRC if anyone wants to get in touch

[jacques4x4]

have you tried putting grub on your NTFS partition.. sda3 ?

Perhaps a more important question... do you have all of your data backed up?

[patg7590]

Not yet, which is why I don't want to reinstall, but that is next on the list, probably do that tonight. (I'm pretty sure I dodged a bullet trying to install using --force and having at least osx still work haha)

[jacques4x4]

Good luck.. let us know how it goes... I had success putting grub on the NTFS partition.

[patg7590]

Do you also use rEFIt? does it take you to grub from windows being selected in rEFIt and from Ubuntu? This seems like a hack which makes me think it will make it even harder to get support next update :/

[jacques4x4]

I do. and it works well. It is an easy install and uninstall. I used the Mac disk image.

http://refit.sourceforge.net/

Note that this does not appear on the first boot. you have to power down osx a couple of time.. be sure to check out the faq.

Also after your install go to refit partition tool to be sure that you are synced up.

refit is very easy to uninstall before the "next update"

[patg7590]

I am not communicating this very well...

I had refit installed and working, everything worked great.

I was asking if you were using rEFIt. I already use it without issue. I just have a botched GRUB now. Someone in IRC thought the same thing though. Perhaps I worded that poorly.

[jacques4x4]

Perhaps I should read a bit more carefully.

After you back up I do think you will be successful if you install grub to your NTFS partition..

But do back up

[patg7590]

The latest I'm hearing in IRC is that I should install grub to my MBR. located at (i think) /dev/sda.

I think to do this I need to run

install-grub --force /dev/sda

at the install step of the process. I'm not sure yet though. I still need to backup and I will post back if that works.

[jacques4x4]

Backup before you try that.

When I gave that a spin I had to reformat my drive and reinstall OS X. Your mileage may vary.