[orca-list] Grub help



Hi, all,

 

Wondered if anyone could give me some pointers on troubleshooting problems with grub.  Is there an accessible way to do this?  I ran into the Ubuntu Grub Bug.  For many users who upgrade form Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04, grub will do something weird causing your computer to be unable to boot up properly.  It’s a royal pain and I’m concerned that I will need sighted assistance thw whole way.  I basically had a pc on which I installed Ubuntu 13.10 after wiping it clean of Windows 8.  I then did a do-release-upgrade to 14.04 and it worked OK until the latest batch of updates came up and Grub was updated to the latest and greatest version officialy used by the Ubuntu people.  When next I restarted my machine, it refused to come up and my son described a weird assortment of gauges in a triangular configuration.  He’s 6 and ½ years old so, this is pretty good considering.  He even read me a few things that led me to believe I was in the bios or the grub menu, I don’t know which.  Can somene describe Grub’s menu to me so I would recognize it of someone else is seeing it and telling me what they see?  Anyway, I can get the thing to come up using a live cd image.  Are there config files I can edit or something to get this working?  Has anyone else encountered this before?  It’s really disturbing since I use this as a server as well as a workstation and we had uploaded a ton of our pictures and music and video files to it already.  Reinstalling is not an option if it means potentially loosing all of that stuff.  I realize this is somewhat off topic but, I am sort of at an impass here and I know there are some pretty knowledgeable people on this list.

 

Thanks.

Alex M

 



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