From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Andreas Born <futur.andy@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 fails when booting from CD
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:17:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA0B59A.8030404@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9FAB74.8020804@googlemail.com>
It sounds like you built the iso to use hd emulation instead of native
el-torito boot, and you don't have the correct modules built into the
core image. Either that or if hd0 actually is the hard disk and not an
emulated one, you don't have the partition table module built into the core.
On 9/26/2010 4:22 PM, Andreas Born wrote:
>>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 2:42 LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 5:09 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08 5:24 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08 8:34 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:47 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 22:52 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:00 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 23:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:46 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09 1:33 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-09 6:51 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 8:36 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:46 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09 7:53 ` future of grub commands setup and install ? Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-09 12:14 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-10 6:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-10 6:38 ` Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-08 15:28 ` LiveCD bootloader Andreas Born
2010-09-08 15:46 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-08 16:31 ` GRUB2 fails when booting from CD Andreas Born
2010-09-26 20:22 ` Andreas Born
2010-09-27 15:17 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
[not found] ` <4CA1FEF0.4000209@googlemail.com>
[not found] ` <4CA215C9.9060000@cfl.rr.com>
[not found] ` <4CA219B9.3020209@googlemail.com>
[not found] ` <4CA22FC6.9000701@cfl.rr.com>
2010-09-28 20:19 ` Andreas Born
2010-12-25 20:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-12-27 12:30 ` Andreas Born
2011-01-04 14:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 22:48 ` LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
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