Comment 2 for bug 423448

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Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek) wrote : Re: [Bug 423448] [NEW] [Karmic] Today's update of grub-pc left my computer non-bootable

The problem is Karmic doesn't order the SATA drives properly. This pooches
FreeDOS, Grub, and everything else.

You are going to encounter a lot of people with more than one SATA drive,
Karmic had best get this bug sorted out.

On Thursday 03 September 2009 03:21:05 am Felix Zielcke wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 408699 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/408699
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 22:40 +0000 schrieb seasoned_geek:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > I applied the 50 updates KPackageKit said needed to be applied today.
> > After playing swat-the-mole clicking on APT failures I made the mistake
> > of trying to do an orderly reboot. The GRUB-PC upgrade broke my
> > machine. It will not boot.
> >
> > symbol 'grub_zalloc' not found.
> >
> > I don' t know how to operate from the GRUB_RECOVERY> prompt.
> >
> > I had to file this bug report from a Windows PC.
>
> You must run grub-install on the device/disk you use for booting.
> The embed core.img is now out of sync with the rest of /boot/grub.
>
> Here's a guide how to do it from a Livecd like the Ubuntu one:
> http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide
>
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 408699
> karmic " 'grub_zalloc' not found " after update
>

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