Comment 20 for bug 484499

I'm coming at you from the live CD now.

I double checked /etc/default/grub and those quotes (that fix) are already correct.

I thought I would sudo update-grub yet another time, and recheck again.

I saw that the countdown time was at 10, and I changed it to 4(preference). Yes, I am sure I did not change anything else.

sudo update-grub gave no errors.

On boot, I ONLY got a Grub> prompt. :( Not even the original bad magic and no kernel.

Now, I'm slogging on the live CD. I changed the value back to 10 (just so all is the verified the same).

I had to do a change root (NOT newbie stuff) in order to do an update-grub, as root; on the non-booting system (since there's no easier way to boot a borked, Grub failed system).

sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

...Allowed me to update-grub. (Good luck newbies)

Now, I'm going to test it.

The point is, that fix wasn't the problem, and it's not resolved.