Comment 1 for bug 482757

Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 02:48 +0000 schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker:
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> I´ve made a clean instalation of kubuntu 9.10 in a dell inspiron 1545 machine, with windows 7.
> The instalation was quite easy without any problems. I could install some programs like netbeans, firefox, compiz, mysql,
> and the machine worked fine several days, with this dual boot configuration.
> After a regular apt-get update, grub 1.974 beta was updated to grub2... then the system failed to start, giving this:
> Grub loading.
> The symbol ' ' not found.
> Aborted. Press any key...
>
> and after that, I could not anymore use the laptop, cause after press any key, got the same message, then tried again and the system reboot, and shows the message again - infinite loop.
> I´ve reinstalled kubuntu 9.10 with the live cd, and now it's working, but I see the update info about the grub 2 and I am scared to update the system and lose my access again.
> Are there any way to update the system, includind the grub package, without have this behaviour?

Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and select with space and arrow keys
the right device where it should get installed to. I.e. the disk your
BIOS boots from.
Or just choose all if you don't mind to overwrite all MBRs with GRUB 2.

Strange though that it says that a space is the symbol it couldn't find.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer