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

[dino99]

Testing feedback

On that system, i run several different i386 installations, and get that
issue ONLY with some of them. Booting is always made by the SAME grub
(2.02~beta2-10). So that let me thinking that grub might not be the
package to blame.

a) installations having that issue:  Trusty & Utopic (stock kernels)
b) installations without that issue: The other Ubuntu ones (saucy, precise) with backported 3.13 kernels; And the Debian ones (Jessy & Sid)

So what's up ?  Custom Ubuntu kernels ?  Ubuntu custom settings ?

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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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