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After an attempt to install 14.04 over 13.04 (which was working fine), I have the error msg at start up

error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found. grub rescue>

I have tried to re-install again once, I cannot burn everything and start again. Only using Ubuntu partition for testing etc...but cannot write over other Win7 partition it contains EVERYTHING and just before I was about to run backup :(

I have booted into the demo mode of 14.04 fine any reason I cannot repair from here using suggestions mentioned in other cases? Any suggestions....and many thanks in advance :)

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Several suggestions in bug report, none seem to work for everyone.

Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977

One choice: You need to chroot & use dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc instead of grub-install directly, so that the system knows that it needs to run grub-install on that drive the next time grub is upgraded. Or if UEFI:

dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64

Some find Boot-Repair works, others do not.

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  • Boot repair will not work..tried but failed. Using a Legacy/UEFi boot option so non specific should boot?
    – user281836
    May 16, 2014 at 0:02
  • Did you try the full chroot uninstall all versions of grub and reinstall? Not just the auto fix.
    – oldfred
    May 16, 2014 at 0:25

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