Comment 14 for bug 403408

I have had a similar problem with a fresh ubuntu 9.10 install on a Thinkpad R40e.

On my system I was just getting "error: no such device" and "press any key to continue" immediately without even seeing the grub menu. Pressing a key just repeated the same message. Whats more, when booting from the CD there is no "Rescue a broken system" option.

I was able to comment out the three lines Felix mentioned in post #10 above, by booting the live CD, mounting my hard disk from there, and then editing the grub-mkconfig_lib file within. However I'm not sure of how to run the "update-grub" command without the rescue option, since presumably it needs to be run on the installed system itself.

Editing the grub-mkconfig_lib file alone has changed the behaviour slightly. Now I at least get the grub menu, but selecting one of the options returns me to the familiar "press any key to continue" message. So I still can't boot my system.

Can anyone advise how to run the update-grub command in my situation where the rescue option is missing?