Comment 259 for bug 1289977

@psusi
> No, as already discussed, there is a broken installation of grub. The reason Colin reopened this report is because he wants to put in some checks at some point to detect that it's broken and guide you through fixing it.

You start with "No,", but you confirm what I said. Note I didn't say the bug is in grub itself; I have no idea whether it's in grub or in Ubuntu or in Ubuntu's packaging of grub, but something is broken if this situation happens in the first place.

> there is a broken installation of grub
If there is a broken installation, something is broken.
A few users got that "broken installation" after a fresh install, so some piece of software responsible for installing it didn't do its job correctly.
I (and others) got that "broken installation" after having to manually touch things because the Ubuntu installer just hadn't been capable of installing the system. I didn't tinker with things because I wanted to, I was forced to because the Ubuntu installer doesn't do its job and the docs don't offer any instructions that work, so I had to try things. If I happened to touch something wrong, it was because I was forced to touch things that I shouldn't even have had to touch.

> Colin reopened this report is because he wants to put in some checks at some point to detect that it's broken and guide you through fixing it.

Which is what must be done to fix this issue. A robust OS (like any robust piece of software) cheks things and warns you if it's going to break.