[Bug 1311247] Re: error: malformed file, press any key to continue

[Travis Falkenberg]

Have had this error, exactly as described, on and off since a new
installation of Xubuntu 14.04 (beta). Thought it might go away on
official release but has remained.

Grub is installed on /dev/sda

Was running Ubuntu 12.04 from a different partition on the same disk but
have now deleted it. Did an update grub to get rid of the 12.04 boot
option but the malformed file issue remained.

Tried what luvr(luc-vanrompaey) did in the above post, substituting
/dev/sda.

Appears to have worked for the time being at least.

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Title:
  error: malformed file, press any key to continue

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04

  Since the upgrade, when I boot up, the process stops and the normal
  grub screen is replaced after a short while by a message saying

  "error: malformed file, press any key to continue"

  Pressing a key allows booting to continue.

  Someone else who experienced this found that the problem went away
  after having re-installed grub.  I tried this but this did not resolve
  the problem for me.

  synaptic reports the grub package as 2.02~beta2-9

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