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

[olly_b]

Some thoughts after reading the comments to date:

The root cause of this error is stated clearly on #109

Various successful workarounds have been reported, including:
Identifying the device mounted on /boot then chrooting to it.
Then either manually uninstalling and reinstalling the grub packages
or running grub-install
or running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

The concensus appears to be a preference for dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

However, many of the reports are from users with dual-boot Win8 installations (like mine)
dpkg-query -l 'grub*' shows that I have grub-efi-amd64 installed, but not grub-pc or grub-efi
It is probable that most pcs with Win8 have 64bit installations.

Would this procedure work?

boot from usb or cd
dpkg-query -l 'grub*'
  to determine which grub packages are installed (grub-efi-amd64 in my case)
df 
  to determine device mounted on /boot/efi (sda2 in my case)
cd /tmp
mkdir mount-point
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/mount-point
sudo mount --bind /dev /tmp/mount-point/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /tmp/mount-point/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /tmp/mount-point/sys
sudo chroot /tmp/mount-point
dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64

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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:
  Incomplete

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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