Comment 2 for bug 408699

Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 12:22 +0000 schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> Binary package hint: grub
>
> I just updated (Update Manager) a few minutes ago (~9:30pm GMT -8) and
> on reboot get thrown into the GRUB 2 shell with the following on the
> screen:
>
> GRUB loading.
> Welcome to GRUB! // note: inverse video
> <blank line>
> Entering rescue mode...
> error: the symbol 'grub_zalloc' not found
> grub rescue>

Seems like the embed core.img is out of sync from /boot/grub.
Run grub-install again and make sure you use the disk your BIOS boots
from and that /boot is the one mounted you want to use.

> When I type help it replys "Unknown command 'help' <CR> Try 'help for
> usage'.
>
> I found some info on http://grub.enbug.org/Manual#head-
> e045cd3fcb30ba800b68803eb5f2fb2aa63ed02c but not enough to fix anything,
> and the cat command doesn't work either. ls produces the following line:

help and cat are in minicmd.mod which isn't by default included in the
embed core.img

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer