Comment 40 for bug 1269992

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John Cottier (j-cottier) wrote :

It would not install boot-repair as its not available for 14.04 64 bit yet.
Tried sudo debconf-show grub-pc but did not seem to show any path.
Tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and it just gave a blank command line.
Booted the live CD to re-install and it offered an upgrade from 14.04 to 14.04 ?!? I let it run that but it had a lot of errors with bad packages. I had a suspicion that the original install had not in fact formatted the partition to wipe 13.10 off (even though it was selected to do that). So I used gparted from the live CD to delete the partition and start install again. This worked flawlessly. I seem to remember that happening in the past too. So I am guessing that on the original 14.04 install, it actually installed over the top of 13.10 and got confused over the files left over.