ubuntu 10.04 grub2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS终于发布了，原来打算过一阵子再把9.10升一下的，但今天在update manager里，看到已经有提示说可以直接升到10.04，一时冲动没忍住，于是就升了，接着就碰到魔鬼了：重启后在grub那步出错，过不去了，提示 “GRUB loading error: the symbol ‘grub_puts_’ not found”，光标就停在grub rescue>后面，google找了一些文章，发现国内的几个都大同小异，后面有一些步骤根本没有交代清除，做到一半就进行不下去了，后来找到一个老外的帖子, 一步一步都很清楚，照着做下来，成功地把grub2修复了。

1. Boot to the LiveCD Desktop (Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 10.04).
2. Open a terminal – Applications, Accessories, Terminal.
3. Determine your normal system partition – (the switch is a lowercase “L”) sudo fdisk -l
   • If you aren’t sure, rundf -Th. Look for the correct disk size and ext3 or ext4 format.
4. Mount your normal system partition:
   • Substitute the correct partition: sda1, sdb5, etc.

   sudo mount /dev/sdXX /mnt # Example: sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

5. Only if you have a separate boot partition:
   • sdYY is the /boot partition designation (examply sdb3)
   • sudo mount /dev/sdYY /mnt/boot
6. Mount devices:sudo mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/dev
7. To ensure that only the grub utilities from the LiveCD get executed, mount /usrsudo mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr
8. mount proc filesystemsudo mount --bind /proc/ /mnt/proc
9. Chroot into your normal system device:sudo chroot /mnt
10. If there is no /boot/grub/grub.cfg or it’s not correct, create one usingupdate-grub
11. Reinstall GRUB 2:
    • Substitute the correct device – sda, sdb, etc. Do not specify a partition number.

    grub-install /dev/sdX

12. Verify the install (use the correct device, for example sda. Do not specify a partition): sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX
13. Exit chroot: CTRL-D on keyboard
14. Unmount devices:sudo umount /mnt/dev
    • If you mounted a separate /boot partition:sudo umount /mnt/boot
15. Unmount last device:sudo umount /mnt
16. Reboot.reboot

Post-Restoration Commands

Once the user can boot to a working system, try to determine why the system failed to boot. The following commands may prove useful in locating and/or fixing the problem.

To refresh the available devices and settings in /boot/grub/grub.cfg

• sudo update-grub

To look for the bootloader location.

• grub-probe -t device /boot/grub

To install GRUB 2 to the sdX partition’s MBR (sda, sdb, etc.)

• sudo grub-install /dev/sdX

To recheck the installation. (sda, sdb, etc.) sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX

Please check the following link for further details.