[xubuntu-users] Upgrade - grub in stall faile now can't boot

[Wes James]

I upgraded from xubuntu 13.04/10 ?? with:

do-release-upgrade

at the end it said if failed installing grub now when I boot it fails to the grub-rescue prompt.

I've booted from live dvd and mounted thus:

sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt


I see this:

:/mnt$ l
@/  @apt-snapshot-release-upgrade-saucy-2013-11-25_14:41:27/  @apt-snapshot-release-upgrade-trusty-2015-01-06_14:26:30/  @home/

I realized that I had installed with btfrs and get this when trying to install grub (in several locations):

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
grub-install: error: filesystem `btrfs' doesn't support blocklists.

ubuntu at ubuntu:/mnt/@$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/@/ /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
grub-install: error: filesystem `btrfs' doesn't support blocklists.

ubuntu at ubuntu:/mnt/@$ l home
ubuntu at ubuntu:/mnt/@$ l
bin/   cdrom/  etc/   initrd.img@      lib/    media/  opt/   root/  sbin/  sys/  usr/  vmlinuz@
boot/  dev/    home/  initrd.img.old@  lib64/  mnt/    proc/  run/   srv/   tmp/  var/  vmlinuz.old@

ubuntu at ubuntu:/mnt$ l boot
grub/
ubuntu at ubuntu:/mnt$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/grub/ /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
grub-install: error: filesystem `btrfs' doesn't support blocklists.

Is there a way I can fix this. Looking at some discussion online, this seems to be a common issue, but I didn't see a fix for this with btfrs setup.

Any idea how to get grub installed?

Thanks,

-wes

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