Ubuntu
grub2 package

  1. Bug #509797
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 509797

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Alex (biz-scouras) wrote :

It appears to have been a failed upgrade from grub to grub-pc? I attempted solutions from several websites, but nothing worked. In particular, grub-probe -d /dev/sda always failed to detect which filesystem it is (ext3) and prompted for a module. There was an ext2 but no ext3 and I couldn't figure out which module to specify to grub-mkinstall.

Once I realized it might be an upgrade problem, I instead did apt-get install grub-legacy. The machine booted, did some fscking, rebooted, and now appears to be working fine.

Linux version 2.6.30-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.30-6) (<email address hidden>) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-1) ) #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 18:09:19 UTC 2009