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Happy time with recent GRUB2 update with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

My short story of dealing with failed grub2 install which rendered my server unbootable.

It was all good till recent update of grub2. Apparently it no longer fits into MBR and I missed related warnings. Or may be I had grub-legacy. I do not know honestly, but in result I had un-bootable remote server.

Using rescue mode (which is like Live-CD, but instead of GUI gives you SSH access so you could restore your server) I was able to get into server and try to update grub. Here is what I got for grub-install /dev/sda: