I've upgraded my htpc box several times but only recently i found out im still on the generic 12.04 kernel. So i tried udating grub
root@htpc:/# update-grub
GRUB >= 2.00 has been unpacked but not yet configured.
grub-mkconfig will not work until the upgrade is complete.
It should run later as part of configuring the new GRUB packages.
I then tried the usual: apt-get -f install, reinstallation and removal of grub-pc, but still the error. grub-install works fine
root@htpc:/home/bart# grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
I started digging around a bit in /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig and found:
if fgrep -qs '${GRUB_PREFIX}/video.lst' "${grub_mkconfig_dir}/00_header"; then
echo "GRUB >= 2.00 has been unpacked but not yet configured." >&2
echo "grub-mkconfig will not work until the upgrade is complete." >&2
echo "It should run later as part of configuring the new GRUB packages." >&2
exit 0
fi
but GRUB_PREFIX is nowhere defined??? Is this file delivered like that in the distribution? If so, it looks like a pretty silly bug. Anyway, I've added:
GRUB_PREFIX="/boot/grub/i386-pc"
export GRUB_PREFIX
and now everything works fine.
root@htpc:/# apt-cache policy grub-pc
grub-pc:
Installed: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 0
500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.02~beta2-9 0
500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: grub (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-63.95-generic-pae 3.2.57
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-63-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 5 21:40:55 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-09 (756 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
SourcePackage: grub
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-29 (220 days ago)
That should not have made any difference since the script is not actually referencing GRUB_PREFIX since it was removed. The script is checking to see if /etc/grub.