Recovering Grub

• From the grub boot prompt, this worked: (from here, at the bottom)

grub>
root (hd0,1)  # "1" matches the partition number
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro  #again, modify for the drive/partition
initrd /initrd.img
boot

• Excellent troubleshooting page: help.ubuntu.com/…oubleshooting
• Can try: dpkg --configure -a
• edit /etc/default/grub and make sure timeout_quiet is false
• run ubdate-grub