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

[Saurabh Rindani]

@jojive
In my case, pressing F12 gave me the device booting order menu. It showed only my hard disk as the device (I have only one hard disk). However, below that it listed OS options: ubuntu twice (perhaps including earlier version) and also windows. Once could use arrow keys to select the OS to boot. However, using + and - keys one could change the order of the OS options in the menu. 

I checked this again today, since I did not remember clearly what I did
the first time.

@psusi

I entirely agree with Teo in that the only way to make 13.04 work for me
was to use boot repair. If that was a misconfiguration, why is that I
could upgrade to 13.10 without a hiccup? If the upgrade to 13.10 worked
without a problem, the upgrade to 14.04 is clearly following a different
system which does not take care of what the upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10
could take care of.

I also agree with Teo that those who are meant to fix the bug are not
the ones who are helping, but people like us who are venting their
frustrations also end up helping each other.

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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:
  Opinion

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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