Bug#743477: grub2: grub fails with "error: 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

[kittyofthebox]

Source: grub2
Followup-For: Bug #743477

Hi,

I have recently had to help someone out with this bug and I don't think this 
is actually bug. What has happened here is grub-pc thinks that update-grub 
is supposed to be ran on a drive that your bios is no looking at, but 
probably has an older version of grub already installed. This works fine 
until one day you update your grub package and boom, you get this error 
the way to fix this is chrooting but it's pretty involved. I have however 
fixed it with this method. There is also additonal talk and infomration 
about this over at the ubuntu but report thread: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977

Good luck.

Kitty

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