missing /boot/grub

[Victor Costan]

I'm on Intrepid (8.10) and I did a software update, and I got this. I hope the logs have enough information. I did the software update right after I powered up my computer, I didn't do anything else after logging in.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-2-generic 2.6.27-2.3 [modified: lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.pcimap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.dep lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.ieee1394map lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.usbmap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.isapnpmap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.inputmap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.seriomap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.alias lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.symbols]
ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=a5b5473b-9113-4363-a2ad-829a98635299 ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-1.2-generic
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-2-generic 2.6.27-2.3 [modified: lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.pcimap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.dep lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.ieee1394map lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.usbmap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.isapnpmap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.inputmap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.seriomap lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.alias lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/modules.symbols] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Dear Victor, here's what I found at the bottom of your dpkgterminallog:

Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-2-generic (2.6.27-2.3) ...

Running depmod.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-2-generic

The link /initrd.img is a dangling linkto /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-1-generic

The link /vmlinuz is a dangling linkto /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-1-generic

Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.

Searching for GRUB installation directory ...

No GRUB directory found. To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first. To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command. ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###

So it seems something broke your grub? Can you tell us the contents of /boot, please?

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

I'm also changing the package assignment from "linux" to "grub"

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

we got no response from the bug reporter. marking as invalid...