Hello, everybody. After read a lot of pages, try a lot of "possible solutions" and fail every time, I still have the same "out of disk" error on GRUB load.
Last step I took: ensambled a PC with an ASUS M5A78L LE, Athlon II X3, 4Gb RAM, SATA HDD WDC WD10EARS-00MVWB0 1TB. Soft: Linux Mint 12 (Ubuntu based), grub-setup (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5-1linuxmint1 When I start with a hard boot I get the "out of disk". But if I start with a soft reset ther is no problem. What I found: In the GRUB's rescue line I put 'ls' and I can see my partitions, ie (hd0,msdos1). If I enter "ls (hd0,msdos1)/" I can see the files and dirs in the disk. But if I enter "ls (hd0,msdos1)/boot/" I get an error. I tried "Super Grub2 Disk", and again in a hard boot I can't see any OS nor grub.cfg files. But if I run "Super Grub2 Disk" after a soft reboot I have no problem. So, I thought the problem is only during the hard boot. Seeing at the BIOS I found this: During a hard boot the BIOS' POST message shows a 32Mb HDD. But during a soft reset it shows a correct capacity (1TB). So, the problem, I think, is that during a hard boot, since BIOS is detecting only 32Mb (the HDD's cache size) GRUB can't find any file beyond this capacity. Then I start my PC with a USB stick, and starts ok. The loader shows the boot menu, I select the choice and the load process begins. In this moment, does not matter if it is before OS finish its load or not, I reset my PC (throguh ALT+CTRL+DEL or reset button). Since this time is a soft reset, the BIOS detects correctly the 1TB hdd and my OS loads with no problem. My guess: when the USB stick (or live CD) boots, the HDD starts to work, then it reports it whole capacity. Then if I reset my PC it is correclty detected and the OS starts ok. My question: Is there a method that GRUB can "start" the HDD someway, so it report the correct capacity then the files can be accessed? I don't know if it is a HDD's bug (I read a lot of people have this issue with big HDDs), but maybe it can be solved from within GRUB somehow. Do you need more info about my PC? Thanks. JuanMatias -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477430 Title: grub 2 error: out of disk. failed to boot default entries. press any key to continue... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/477430/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
