From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OtNXy-00039A-SB for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:30:54 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40378 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtNXw-000386-Rb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:30:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtNXq-0004lC-4M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:30:52 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:38790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtNXp-0004kt-Uz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:30:46 -0400 Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so323582bwz.0 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:30:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=m0qlljmH0NFDa2fwAkPDCJmaKW0nudn9qVtozybaObU=; b=pj11yxIncmCwL6fwzzGUSRW3z2+SrrUKYyTakVZ0TK5sJDqUyif2IN6RYbteSwsb8F HMpm5XspEkCAHkwxsTLqLFkm8EmVG3rNZsNORmmvjhrfigDzvBWYCEUYcC8fz7VPsUmn eeC9yNYPppvNdOiugrrXNOKJn9bmGb1wJm0zg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ni618p5B0olJARJPedhLuKfZ82O8mNmDSPfPK/qHpQ9k42/xKE8iDCfNKSUfNcTIj2 lBnd8bjq8CTmOHvDjpb4B+0K/7c5tBP8rfs6izahWnz7KDGNu5RAjxDZYj7S0+CQEFTT wiKUiCF4cs0RnviPlmQMBbd7mde0aQdvzPtZo= Received: by 10.204.54.72 with SMTP id p8mr977423bkg.163.1283963444766; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.44] (p5B0CBC61.dip.t-dialin.net [91.12.188.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g12sm186052bkb.14.2010.09.08.09.30.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C87BA4D.4070807@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:31:09 +0200 From: Andreas Born User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20100907234220.54cf8040@gmail.com> <4C87AB87.2070508@googlemail.com> <20100908154603.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100908154603.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: GRUB2 fails when booting from CD 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, 08 Sep 2010 16:30:54 -0000 Am 08.09.2010 17:46, schrieb Colin Watson: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:28:07PM +0200, Andreas Born wrote: > >> - Starting Grub2 fails on my pretty new desktop (the only such report >> as far as I'm concerned) >> > Fails how? > After selecting to boot from cdrom in the bios it outputs the following: Welcome to GRUB! error: hd111 cannot get C/H/S values. Enetering rescue mode... grub rescue> Then I'm at the rescue prompt. The problem is reproducible with SalixLive or a minimal image I've created for testing purpose, but so far only on that one machine of mine. You can acquire the latter here: http://gaia.homelinux.org/misc/grub-test.iso (4.3M) I've experimented a bit with ls on the rescue prompt here's the output: > ls (hd0) > ls (hd0) error: unknown filesystem If you need anything else, just let me know and I'll try to do my best to help you. Regards, Andreas