By Ded Ryzing: It appears there is a known bug with Linux Mint, and possible Ubuntu 7.10 as well, where Grub can’t find message.mint on boot. You will receive a message “/etc/grub/message.mint missing, press a key to continue”. This happens because Grub is not able to access /etc/grub when /boot is setup as it’s own partition (message.mint is located in /etc/grub/).

The work-around for this is pretty simple.:
1) copy message.mint to /boot/grub/
prompt$ sudo cp /etc/grub/message.mint /boot/grub/

2) make a backup copy of /boot/grub/menu.lst
prompt$ sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.bak

3) tell menu.lst where new message.mint file is located.
prompt$ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

change line:
gfxmenu=/etc/grub/message.mint
to:
gfxmenu=/grub/message.mint

Save the file and reboot to test. That’s it.

Tags: LinuxMint, message.mint