From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7SBh-0001ko-JC for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:50:21 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58605 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7SBd-0001jV-A5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:50:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7SBb-0002U6-Vz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:50:16 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:45272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7SBb-0002Tl-N6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:50:15 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so1198072fxm.0 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:50:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=k0vmVV+jN3a6TbPWOVpNwIF8DYFuLhp4axQeHxjHdqM=; b=xVEKNpzEt0tBE+mO/WIvBkTIRvXMDxwe2fzIXGp/6w5q1X4v/sjVwPSXVakIXPc46K Pll45NxZFSmWkNbMjlZpruZ47EXqxEkNAVPepFvb1Tm6ckYExi5mu/lcA8Pe/uwAok4s pBnaR6ZQjNVGZIvM7ZXoWK537MUCerRjg4aY4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=Dx8nNsctS11HnmQUFj9wHmEu+T3peb0yCbFNA+JUDjmeszd+i4M1plWsC1nQarkOFd g1cT71xpfpOKkF27P+qfgvxlLr/PhX77ViSZWPT1cNOu94+DFHkjcyO1wm4Jan2s80td VR6RGyE0CM9b3uWbaJqEHiuXMC8I59QTIVbkI= Received: by 10.223.33.80 with SMTP id g16mr341394fad.125.1302094214544; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs53.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l2sm180029fam.29.2011.04.06.05.50.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9C6179.5010205@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:50:01 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110402 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20110316151332.GC343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20110316151332.GC343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig06D5BFFFC71181333E860204" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.41 Cc: Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error. X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:50:19 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig06D5BFFFC71181333E860204 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 tol= d > 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=3Doff' 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. > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig06D5BFFFC71181333E860204 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk2cYX8ACgkQNak7dOguQglCegD+Oxn6pUwDsjOZPUfNnBgmelGo 9oTpiEknJS3dJyyepnoBAMMWCTqgepgUiC0qrsd20FdM8RMUw5jXv/2Ca2rvfLuj =tZI6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig06D5BFFFC71181333E860204--