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jerrylamos (jerrylamos) wrote : Re: [needs-packaging] Clean-Ubiquity (automatic MBR backup)

Pangolin 12.04 beta 2 updates are mangling grub. After an update that does a update-grub rebooting results in a:

Purple screen with a few columns of faint black lines at the top.

Sometimes boot-repair works, not recently, it repairs to the same purple screen and faint black lines.

So I get my multi-partitions going again by installing Lucid Lynx in a spare partition. So far, never fails!

Attached is a copy of the boot-repair info. It said it worked but I got the same purple screen with a few black lines at the top.
With nothing running can't do an ubuntu-bug grub.

Sure would like to know how to save grub & configuration so I could at least boot live and restore them.

Acer Aspire 5253 notebook AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350, 2 GB memory 15.6" HD LED LCD.

Thanks much,

Jerry