Greg's House of Treats

Oh, this is so cool!

http://www.techlib.com/science/ion.html

Yet another bad version of Grub got pushed to Debian testing.  Those guys really are not doing QA properly.  Anyway, the error message appears before the grub screen starts, and looks like this:

Grub error: The symbol grub_xputs not found
grub rescue>

Apparently grub is confused because I have 2 hard disks (duh...).  You can read many bug reports about this, and it is still not solved after most of a year.  For example

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/509797
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/609280
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588370
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589737

The solution is to burn a live cd (I use USB for this), and fix.  Here is the solution details, and it works quite well:

• http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide
  

When you have a little free time, the following is a good read.

http://www.american-buddha.com/