Today I updated the kernel to 3.5.0-18-generic and resulted into a grub rescue again with a message "ELF smaller than expected".
Again, booted using the live-cd (old 11.10 version), ensure to have network access through the GUI then hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a shell then did the following (with /dev/pts this time..) sudo -s mount -t xfs /dev/sda3 /mnt mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys chroot /mnt Reinstalling the linux* packages from the /var/cache/apt/archives did not worked. Neither did the reinstallation of the grub packages... What finally worked: apt-get purge grub-pc grub-common rm -fr /boot/grub apt-get update apt-get install grub-pc grub-common --->>> selected only my /dev/sda drive for installation, and not my / partition /dev/sda3 exit (from chroot) umount everything properly (really usefull? not sure...) umount /mnt/dev/pts umount /mnt/sys umount /mnt/proc umount /mnt/dev umount /mnt reboot -f and voilà! finally got a working grub and being able to boot. Hoping that totally purging + stripping out the /boot/grub directory will solve my problem once and for good... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1051280 Title: reboot into grub prompt after system update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1051280/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
