I'd like to append to my previous message that I have the identical problem with Fedora 15 beta and Linux Mint 10. That is why I believe the problem is a grub2 issue. Again, more than happy to provide diagnostic info to someone who knows more than I do about how grub2 works.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Jonathan M. Polom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully I can pick up some insight on this problem on this list > since I think it's related to grub nuance. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on > a Intel-based system (C2DUO, 4gb ddr2, g33 chipset) with a 1 TB > WD1001FALS SATA drive on channel 0. The BIOS hasn't been updated > recently but I don't believe my motherboard manufacturer has updated > it for a couple years. Anyway onto the problem: > > Upon first cold boot, grub does not load the menu or operating system. > Grub2 displays an "error: out of disk" and then goes to a grub rescue > prompt. No length of idle time permits it to load the menu (IE: just > leaving it alone does nothing to help the problem). The really weird > thing is that if I run 'ls' at the rescue prompt and then execute CTRL > ALT DEL to do a warm reboot, grub WILL load Ubuntu next time around. I > do not have any other OS on the machine so grub is configured to just > boot Ubuntu directly (no menu). > > I can replicate this problem very reliably. I can also replicate it > using both SATA AHCI and "normal" mode for my SATA controller (intel > northbridge). > > I appreciate any help on this issue and am more than happy to provide > config files, logs, etc. to help figure out why this problem occurs. > While this problem doesn't prevent use of my PC, it does require a > very inconvenient workaround. > > ** Cross posted from bug-grub ** > > -- > Jon Polom > -- Jon Polom _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
