Bug 40667 – Booting from the wrong device, GRUB displays "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

Bug 40667 - Booting from the wrong device, GRUB displays "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"


Summary:	Booting from the wrong device, GRUB displays "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_col...

Status:	CLOSED FIXED

Product:	Z_SDB
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New entries
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P5 normal
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Assigned To:	Janek Walkenhorst
QA Contact:	Sönke Schwardt-Krummrich

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Reported:	2016-02-15 17:27 CET by Janek Walkenhorst
Modified:	2023-03-25 06:43 CET (History)
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Description Janek Walkenhorst

2016-02-15 17:27:30 CET

If GRUB is installed on a different device than the one that the BIOS boots from the system may still boot as long as the device-installed GRUB is compatible with the OS-installed GRUB.
Once they diverge GRUB may display messages like
"symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

This can be fixed by either:

)
changing the BIOS boot order to boot from the disk that the GRUB is installed on.

or:

)
temporarily change the boot order to boot into the system, if required, and
use
 dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
to select the correct device(s) (i.e. the device(s) the BIOS is configured to boot from) to install GRUB on.

Using dpkg-reconfigure ensures that future GRUB updates will not lead to the same problem.

Comment 1 Janek Walkenhorst

2016-02-17 12:29:17 CET

<http://sdb.univention.de/1356>

Comment 2 Sönke Schwardt-Krummrich

2016-02-19 11:43:11 CET

Fixed and verified