Comment 15 for bug 551721

I experiment the same problem for a few, on may Dell Studio 1558 laptop.

Am friday 20th of august i was working on Windows Seven When a Dell update was applied without I should agree or disagree. After reboot I got also the message :
"no module name found.
Aborted. Press any key to exit"

I wasn't able to get the GRUB menu to launch neither Ubuntu (10.04 +updates , amd64, setted up on dual booth with default options of the live CD) nor Seven.

Using a live-USB, I succeeded to restore the grub install using
sudo mkdir /media/ubuntu
sudo mount /dev/sda5 # sd5 6 is the partition where is my root of Ubuntu
sudo grub-install --root-directory /media/ubuntu /dev/sda

My partitions are
/dev/sda1 Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * "RECOVERY" [sudo os-prober returns : Windows 7 (loader)]
/dev/sda3 OS [Windows 7 directory]
/dev/sda5 Ubuntu root directory [sudo os-prober returns : Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS]
/dev/sda6 swap
/dev/sda7 Home directory for Ubuntu
(...)

Each time I'm using Windows I had tio restore grub after rebooting. Even after an hibernation.

Lots of people seem having the same problem as you can read on ubuntuforums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1343851)

I hope to to find something better as the workaround to remove Dell utility backup or to restore grub2 each time...