I had a CLEAN INSTALL on a NEW formatted partition (with gparted) and ran into the same problem
Only special thing on my system is, that /home is on an extra partition.
(in the german Version instead of ""error: no symbol table. Press any key to continue..." on can see "FEHLER: KEINE SYMBOLTABELLE. DRÜCKEN SIE EINE TASTE... [adding the text that German speaking users find this on search engines]
I had a CLEAN INSTALL on a NEW formatted partition (with gparted) and ran into the same problem
Only special thing on my system is, that /home is on an extra partition.
(in the german Version instead of ""error: no symbol table. Press any key to continue..." on can see "FEHLER: KEINE SYMBOLTABELLE. DRÜCKEN SIE EINE TASTE... [adding the text that German speaking users find this on search engines]
Solution of Alex N. worked for me: (LÖSUNG:)
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot
no number after /dev/sda ! (KEINE ZAHL nach /dev/sda !)