Bug#588370: symbol not found: 'grub_xputs'

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:27:25PM +0200, Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
> I am not sure but I do think I did a dist-upgrade in sid and installd
> grub2 to replace the old solution. I haven't used the computer for
> some days now but it can not boot anymore.
>
> Right after "Welcome to grub!" it drops to the grub rescue prompt.
> I can list my drives with ls.
> I can set root to hd0,1 and list the file system for / as far as I can  
> tell.
> When doing insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod I get the grub_xputs error above.

This means that your GRUB core image, as installed by grub-install, and
your GRUB modules in /boot/grub are out of sync.  This happens when you
grub-install to a location other than that from which your computer
actually boots.

Please show the output of:

  debconf-show grub-pc
  fdisk -l

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]