On 16.03.2011 16:13, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I am trying to figure out why grub2 (from Debian Squeeze) gives an 'out > of disk' error when trying to boot from the HD after doing an install. > It ends up at a grub rescue prompt, given it can't even read the disk > well enough to load the full grub. Doing ls shows the disks, and I can > show the root directory of a partition, but anything further seems to > hit the same 'out of disk' error. > I have another idea. Could you try GRUB 1.97 and GRUB Legacy? A similar report on our BTS seems to indicate that GRUB Legacy works. Major difference between Legacy and latest GRUB2 is that GRUB2 uses C-wrappers around BIOS calls whereas in GRUB Legacy they are in asm. The change happened after 1.97 > The system is a Compulab CM-iTC which uses an intel tunnelcreek atom > (the new one) with a phoenix bios. So far Compulab's response when told > it won't boot grub2 was "We know, but syslinux works fine.", which to > me is not a solution at all. The same system also hangs the Linux 2.6.32 > kernel unless 'edd=off' is added to the kernel command line. > > So any suggestions on how to go about debuagging this? Or even any > ideas why grub would give such an error. >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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