I had a deeper look into this issue, and this is what I think is going on: If you switched to Debian-style dependency-based boot ordering on a very old Ubuntu release and kept upgrading to newer releases, somewhere along the line the support for dependency-based boot ordering was dropped in Ubuntu. I was able to recover by simply executing:
I had a deeper look into this issue, and this is what I think is going on: If you switched to Debian-style dependency-based boot ordering on a very old Ubuntu release and kept upgrading to newer releases, somewhere along the line the support for dependency-based boot ordering was dropped in Ubuntu. I was able to recover by simply executing:
$ touch /etc/init. d/.legacy- bootordering
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