[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-07-01 Thread Kent Baxley
** Changed in: dell-poweredge Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-07-01 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/precise-updates/grub2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks To manage notific

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-07-01 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99-21ubuntu3.15 --- grub2 (1.99-21ubuntu3.15) precise; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Backport from upstream: - Fix sector number when writing to non-512B disks (LP: #1253443). [ Yang Bai ] * Backport from upstream: - Suppor

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-06-30 Thread Kent Baxley
Specific version is 1.99-21ubuntu3.15 for Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks To manage notifi

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-06-30 Thread Kent Baxley
Confirmed error is gone with the grub2 from proposed on Advanced Format Drives. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-06-03 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/precise-proposed/grub2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks To manage notifi

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-06-03 Thread Stéphane Graber
Hello Kent, or anyone else affected, Accepted grub2 into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/1.99-21ubuntu3.15 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2014-01-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:debian/jessie/grub2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-18 Thread Kent Baxley
Confirmed 14.04 boots cleanly now. Thanks! Will also test 12.04 when I see the notice go out on this bug report. ** Changed in: dell-poweredge Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-13 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.00-22 --- grub2 (2.00-22) unstable; urgency=low * Backport from upstream: - On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible (LP: #1237519). - Fix sector number when writing to non-512B disks (LP: #1253443). *

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-12 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/grub2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks To manage notific

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-12 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:debian/grub2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks To manage notifications about thi

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Medium => High ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => High ** Description changed: + SRU justification: + + [Impact] Unable to save GRUB environment

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/precise/grub2/precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
That was it. Backporting now. ** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04.4 ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Pr

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
No, it's actually an out-of-range write, almost certainly just multiplied up by the sector size over 512 as you might expect. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grub.git;a=commitdiff;h=4dedb13f51bd467f00a2da9c3611f7c00519f889 looks very promising so I'll try that next. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
The firmware reports io_align == 0 for that block IO medium, so it probably isn't alignment. Looking into other possibilities. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
I'm looking into this. The EFI status code is EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER, so possibly an alignment problem? ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson) -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
Phillip, this is *far* more likely to be an internal bug in GRUB. If it weren't identifying the disk properly due to a hardware problem, then reads would be failing too. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-11-21 Thread Kent Baxley
/sys/block/sda/queue/hw_sector_size says '4096'. The drive is directly connected to an LSI SAS controller in the server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writin

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
The error from the screenshot is: error: failure writing sector 0x1a938000 to `hd1'. Press any key to continue... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 Title: "failure writing to

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-11-20 Thread Kent Baxley
** Description changed: Testing the 14.04 daily server images, I noticed a minor error popping up at boot time. See attached photo. I call this 'minor' because the system will still boot by itself within 10 seconds or so of the error popping up. This only seems to happen so far w

[Bug 1253443] Re: "failure writing to sector" error at boot with Advanced Format Disks

2013-11-20 Thread Kent Baxley
** Attachment added: "grub-error.JPG" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1253443/+attachment/3913583/+files/grub-error.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253443 T