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Till the /cow comes home

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Hi. I have Ubuntu installed twice on my desktop, and was hoping to dual boot it with Windows 7. But when I try to reinstall Grub, I get an error saying "cannot get the canonical path of /cow." What does this mean?

It seems to be a security vulnerability in Ubuntu, etc. Well and good, but how does one fix the issue so that Linux (and Windows) can boot properly? And why, when I look in the file system, is there no folder named /cow?
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Re: Till the /cow comes home

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It's completely innocent if the full message is this:

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grub probe: error: failed to get canonical path of /cow
Installation finished. No error reported.
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Re: Till the /cow comes home

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Mod note:
Moved to Chat about Linux since it does not seem to be about Linux Mint.
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Re: Till the /cow comes home

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So I tried installing Grub again, with the result, "can't find /boot/grub/i386-pc". Progress of a sort.
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