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

[Gerald Krottendorfer]

Same Problem here....
My workarounf was to enter the startup mode by pressing F12 (Dell Inspirion) and boot from there. If not, I would see the "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color" message from grub-rescue.
After a next update, instead of grub-rescue, I could only hear annoying beep sounds, occurring every 2 seconds (lasting for infinite time). I still was able to use the EFI-BIOS boot options to restart.
However, after my latest update, even the F12 Option to enter EFI Bios has been lost. All I got where the Beep's.

After several tries (pressing the on / of button several times, until F12 is displayed) , I may reach the boot menu.
I tried to redo the boot order with efibootmgr --- no success.
After the next startup, the boot order has been overwritten.

I tried Boot-repair --- no success.

Any idea what to do next?

Thank you in advance,
Gerald

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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:
  Triaged

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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