Ubuntu
grub2 package

  1. Bug #1289977
  2. Comment #230

Comment 230 for bug 1289977

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Palmar Thorsteinsson (palmar) wrote :

This happened to me when upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04.
I did not have any special Grub settings as far as I know.

I was unable to manually boot from the Grub rescue prompt as it could not read the partition filesystems (said they were msdos while they are ext).

I tried the recommended solution from comment #39, i.e. run Boot-repair from a live USB, but when it wanted to reinstall Grub from a chroot on the broken partition it failed because I also suffered this bug from the same upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1286404 .

Running "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" from a chroot on the broken partition using a live USB (Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 if I remember correctly) fixed the problem for me.