{"id":1327,"date":"2014-07-15T17:18:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:18:16","slug":"boon-upgrade-to-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Boon Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to upgrade Boon (an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1255\">Ubuntu 13.10 installation<\/a>) to 14.04.  During the upgrade, the \/ file system ran dangerously low on space.  I was removing stuff from the file system to give it enough breathing room and got no errors, but when I rebooted, Grub failed to load:<br \/>\n<code>Error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found<br \/>\nEntering rescue mode...<\/code><br \/>\nI found a reference to a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/grub2\/+bug\/1289977\">bug causing Grub to break<\/a> which had a fix.<\/p>\n<p>I booted my live USB drive of 32-bit Ubuntu 13.10 (it took a few times&#8211;see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1255\">my notes about the hard lock-ups<\/a>).  Once I got it running, I did the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>sudo mkdir \/mnt\/u13boot<br \/>\nsudo mount \/dev\/sda6 \/mnt\/u13boot<br \/>\nsudo grub-install --boot-directory=\/mnt\/u13boot \/dev\/sda<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(\/dev\/sda6 is the location of the \/boot directory of the installed Ubuntu and \/dev\/sda is where Grub is installed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to upgrade Boon (an Ubuntu 13.10 installation) to 14.04. During the upgrade, the \/ file system ran dangerously low on space. I was removing stuff from the file system to give it enough breathing room and got no errors, but when I rebooted, Grub failed to load: Error: symbol &#8216;grub_term_highlight_color&#8217; not found Entering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}