From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Ozxwq-0004dS-DU for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:35:48 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ozxwo-0004bi-84 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:35:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozxjn-00046k-6k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:22:20 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:46960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozxjn-00046g-2H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:22:19 -0400 Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so3965099bwz.0 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:22:17 -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=ulovTFX6JAbHXz2aBWkORTCnm8+3HEqfEgiJKDz7B0o=; b=T21sZ0XFIl2NjvBxy2KIhARIDJBA+9XCBP+FskbTv2UdKqbcpoC+ndg7XlXSNGzzDH cFa/ETT4gx37GnjZwvLaTPExpvPGbqU89GoeLjy3jckSMmSufOpU+AC1dlYPPCUpFJfn sEOHXjoIcx5DWPW5OABXYdccIbNXdBxEDI9cY= 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=xGffHw8rEuZyhiRR7zvY8EAaHbzaL+OXpADGl51KUxgOZGHGGBrSweadUvM8FTSYw6 ol8GT2ftm0yAN5ZZbK/+vm5IPow/JQaVhw249yiFVR0omzEzInHxUXyfpgloHRLf5LAI ID6/rI0iERTPamskJn0Gr+V7XNOcXCK8wOXwg= Received: by 10.204.61.133 with SMTP id t5mr4652815bkh.4.1285532537303; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.55] (p5B0CCFA4.dip.t-dialin.net [91.12.207.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x13sm3677236bki.0.2010.09.26.13.22.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C9FAB74.8020804@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:22:12 +0200 From: Andreas Born User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100917 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20100907234220.54cf8040@gmail.com> <4C87AB87.2070508@googlemail.com> <20100908154603.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> <4C87BA4D.4070807@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C87BA4D.4070807@googlemail.com> 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: Re: 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: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:35:47 -0000 ping Am 08.09.2010 18:31, schrieb Andreas Born: > 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