[bug #28815] Grub fails to boot with "error: cannot get C/H/S values" while probing non-existant floppies

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #28815 (project grub): I appear to be replicating this problem even with the patch below. OS is stock Ubuntu Server 9.10 x64 (grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1). Hardware is a HP Proliant DL140 with no floppy (and no way to add a floppy, or disable it in BIOS). As befor

Suggestion for Grub 2

Suggestion: - I found out that GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=X is very confusing and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true is useless as it make no sense to show a countdown without the menu - My I suggest the replacement of commands GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=X and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT="X" with

Re: Can't boot

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:13 -0300, Luiz alberto Medaets wrote: > I have an 10 years old notebook (500MHz Pentium, 256M memory, 6G HD)that I > use as a netbook at the beach house. > The PS2 device is damaged so I use an external USB mouse and keyboard that > are not recognized by BIOS, that is, un