Comment 264 for bug 1289977

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

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On 10/30/2014 11:19 AM, Teo wrote:
> Will I (and others in my situation) hit the problem again "only"
> when dist-upgrading to 14.10 (which is already out btw) or also
> when installing the grub updates that have been available for a
> while? (which I have always avoided installing just in case)?

It can happen on any update, but won't necessarily happen on every update.

> Secondly and most important, what should I do "so that the package
> system knows" whatever it needs to know, so that I can
> dist-upgrade without screwing up my working system again?

Assuming you are on a bios booting machine and therefore using
grub-pc, use dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc to select the correct drive(s)
where it should be installed.

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