I think I have this figured out. The first issue was that the drive originally had version 2.02 of the firmware. This firmware is seriously broken and prevents this drive from working, and prevents other drives plugged into the same controller from working. My original install attempt was with just the OCZ drive installed on the computer. By the time I had updated the firmware on the drive, I was leaving the other drives attached when I tried to install on the OCZ drive. This lead to the second problem. The installer picks a random drive to install grub on. In this case it kept installing grub on the 250 GB drive I have in the system to do test installs on. Even though I told the installer to do a complete clean install on the OCZ drive. Even though I told the BIOS that the OCZ drive was the boot drive. The installer never asked which of the two drives that had grub installed on them to use, it just arbitrarily picked the wrong one and went with it. I did not realize that because I kept switching between the OCZ drive and the 1.5 GB main drive.
Anyway I finally did a clean install with the OCZ drive being the only drive in the system at the time. And now that the drive has version 2.06 of the firmware it boots. So this bug is now a bug in the installer, and it should be reported that the installer picks a random drive to install grub on. Now that I know this I can work around it. What a waste of a week. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/783313 Title: OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS drive makes system unstable -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
