Bug#595218: Acknowledgement (upgrade-reports: [amd64][lenny->squeeze][20100902] almost successful)
So I attempted to reinstall grub to the MBR following these sources:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
No dice.
I tried the following -
* with the installer cd in 'rescue' mode
* mount /dev/sdb1 (which contains /boot)
* start a shell in /dev/sdb1
* mounting /var and /usr
* run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (also tried rerunning grub-install).
* exit shell and reboot
All seemed to go well but I get the same "Error 15" when rebooting.
* with the installer cd in 'install' mode
* get as far as partitioning
* start a shell
* mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
* build up a chroot as per the ubuntu links above.
* chroot
* mount /var, /usr
* run grub-install /dev/sdb
* umount /var, /usr
* exit shell, umount the other elements of the chroot
* reboot
All seemed to go well but I get the same "Error 15" when rebooting.
* with the installer cd in 'install' mode
* as above but once inside the chroot,
* apt-get --purge remove grub-pc
* cd /var/cache/apt/archives
* dpkg -i grub-pc*.deb
* dpkg -i grub_0.97*.deb (the compatibility package)
* then umount, exit chroot, umount and reboot.
All seemed to go well but I get the same "Error 15" when rebooting.
* I thought of following the recipe given in #547944 but realised that
purging and reinstalling should amount to the same thing.
* I checked the device map file and it was correct, hd1 maps to the
right link in /dev/disk/by-id, ending up at /dev/sdb.
* I checked /dev/sdb was being modified by grub-install.
According to the timestamp, it is.
When examining the grub.cfg, I notice that it tries to load files from
/usr/share as almost the first thing it does. Pretty font files. Sigh.
Is there any way I can turn this off?
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