Yes, I tried precisely those instructions. As I mentioned, it was failing at the
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg grub-install /dev/sda (try grub-install --recheck /dev/sda if it fails) because grub-probe couldn't understand my ext3 filesystem. He of course specifically mentions this problem, but I couldn't get it to move past it. It's certainly not grub2, but it doesn't really matter to me. This machine only runs a single version of linux. There's the occasional kernel upgrade I suppose, but that's nothing grub-legacy can't handle. I never intended to get grub2 specifically; this just all started with an apt-get upgrade that installed a couple hundred packages and I guess a grub2 upgrade was included. I imagine the problem is some inconsistency in how i set up the OS. It took me several tries to get the unstable debian installed (because I needed some fancy X.org/RandR features from it) and maybe I missed some packages/compilations. Plus there was that time I tried to apt-get upgrade perl and something crashed and I had to toy around with dpkg to get the database straightened out. Computers. Can't live with 'em... -- cannot boot: GRUB error symbol 'grub_puts' not found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509797 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
