An associate I work with was able to correctly identify the trouble with loads of Lucid, Oneiric, and the latest Debian. Turns out there is a HDD geometry incompatibility with these newer distros.
The work-around that masked the situation was to partition the blank drive with Ubuntu 9.04, then reboot to 10.04.3, specify the mount points for the existing partitions, and thus arrive at success. In my mind, it is absolutely unacceptable for a modern Linux distro to mess up the HDD geometry / partitioning such that at system will no longer POST properly! I ended up RMA'ing a perfectly good / new HDD back to the manufacturer!! Not cool!!! >:-| Reclassifying this report against fdisk and not grub2. ** Package changed: grub2 (Ubuntu) => gnu-fdisk (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - Ubuntu Lucid and Oneiric prevents system POST once installed + Ubuntu Lucid, Oneiric, and Debian 6.0.3 prevent system POST once installed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874698 Title: Ubuntu Lucid, Oneiric, and Debian 6.0.3 prevent system POST once installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-fdisk/+bug/874698/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
