Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Fun with ion chambers
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Grub error: symbol grub_xputs not found
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 foundApparently 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
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- 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