Comment 2 for bug 551721
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| Jeff Lane (bladernr) wrote Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid Beta1) | #2 |
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This one just bit me in the ass :-( I'm running Lucid with latest updates as of 2 April 2010. I booted into Windows 7, and after shutting that down, I ended up with the same error as the OP for this bug.
Right now, I'm pulling down a new lucid iso to my other system, hoping I can boot that and restore grub.
This REALLY needs to be addressed somehow. This was never an issue with 9.10, and I've not had this issue at all with Lucid until after the last update... or whenever the last grub2 update was pushed to Lucid.
And if you see the bug listed in post #1, you'll see that this has been an issue with Grub2 intermingling with various things in Windows for dual booters since Ubuntu 9.10.
My hardware is an Alienware M15x (from Dell). I am thinking the offending program on the Windows side is probably going to be the Local Backup software, writing something weird to the first few blocks of the hard disk (It has a 6 block partition that it uses for something) which is interfering with Grub 2.
The older grub, with its smaller footprint at the beginning of the disk did not suffer from this issue... so something needs to be done.