GRUB _ (flashing underscore cursor) - failure to boot

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: grub

I fired up my Intrepid installation today and the bootloader just showed me "GRUB _" as text on the screen. This is an indication that stage 2 failed to load I think. I haven't fiddled with GRUB, so somehow my Ubuntu system had hosed itself.

I was running Mac OS prior to this, but it didn't do any updates, and even if it did it wouldn't hose anything other than the BIOS MBR (which I believe holds stage 1), and that was apparently intact.

The repair was to boot a Live CD, run "sudo grub" and, in the grub shell, run "root (hdX,Y)", "setup (hdZ)" with your own values of X and Y and Z.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: grub 0.97-29ubuntu45
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/.local/bin:/home/username/Scripts
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)