A week or so ago my computer failed to boot, giving me an error stating that ‘grub_xputs could not be found.’ My final solution ended up being straight forward and I was up and running again fairly quickly. However, I had a commenter drop by who was unable to resolve the issue on his side, despite trying some grub command-line incantations. As a result, I’ve continued to kinda follow the problem, curious as to a final fix.
I don’t think there’s, as yet, a formal fix. My guess is that it should be possible to fix the grub install with an install image. But I also found this fix which involves using a liveCD. Keep in mind that I have not tried it myself so I can’t vouch for it personally, but I thought I’d point it out for others who happen across this spot in search of some kind of solution.
I’ll note that the solution is not related to the grub_xputs issue. But the end result is a newly installed grub2, which is essentially the requirement to fix the problem.