Bug#589737: Unknown symbol error in grub2 : 'grub_xputs'

[Giel van Schijndel]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:48:40PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote:
> after an upgrade of a mixed squeeze/sid system, grub2 doesn't seem to
> load anymore -- I get the following message instead :
> 
> "The symbol 'grub_xputs' not found'"
> Entering rescue mode
> 
> and get dropped to a rescue mode.

I'm experiencing exactly the same behaviour.

When the BIOS yields control to GRUB this is output to screen:
> GRUB loading.
> Welcome to GRUB!
> 
> error: the symbol `grub_xputs' not found.
> Entering resuce mode...
> grub rescue> _

Perhaps worth noting is that I've got multiple SATA disks (5) in this
system.  During installation it proposed to do grub-install to *both*
/dev/sdb *and* /dev/sdc, which I declined, the latter being part of a
RAID 10 pool, and only the former being the bootdisk.

As of this moment I'm burning a livedvd to try and fix this from a
chroot.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
With kind regards,
Giel van Schijndel
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