[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

[Jesse Caroompas]

I encountered this same problem when updating Lubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 on
an Asus netbook. The primary computer's harddrive has Windows 7 on it,
and I'm running Lubuntu from a thumbdrive installation. (Short version
as to why: the computer's not mine, I'm just on long term loan from a
friend.)

pureblood's solution from post 27 worked to correct the Lubuntu grub
installation, so I can now boot to Windows and Lubuntu 14.04 from the
thumbdrive. However, lacking that thumbdrive, the grub rescue prompt
still shows up when I try to boot natively, with an error showing a
whole bunch of numbers and letters. pureblood's solution doesn't work,
since mounting /dev/sda1 to /tmp/drive and then cding to the directory
shows there's no native /dev, /proc, or /sys directory, and skipping to
sudo chroot /tmp/drive fails with the message: "failed to run command
'/bin/bash'; no such file or directory" (I'm guessing this is because
Windows doesn't have bash). Therefore, I don't know how to get to a
point where running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc would work, and since the
computer's not mine, I don't want to experiment too much.

What's the Windows 7 equivalent to the above solution?

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Title:
  Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol
  'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The update from 13.10 to 14.04 via update-manager broke grub for me,
  which resulted in the grub error:

  "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

  on startup.

  To fix the problem I had to boot to my persisting Ubuntu installation
  (e.g. using Super Grub Disk) and had to reinstall grub on my boot
  partition: "sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdx"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub2-common 2.02~beta2-6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Mar  9 10:36:45 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-10 (88 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-07 (2 days ago)

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