From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1P0FSt-00050E-5I for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:18:03 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49734 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0FSq-000507-BN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:18:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0FSi-0005je-ML for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:18:00 -0400 Received: from exhub016-3.exch016.msoutlookonline.net ([207.5.72.226]:42051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0FSi-0005ig-FX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:17:52 -0400 Received: from [10.1.1.235] (72.242.190.170) by SMTPX16.msoutlookonline.net (207.5.72.190) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.234.1; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:17:49 -0700 Message-ID: <4CA0B59A.8030404@cfl.rr.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:17:46 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 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> <4C9FAB74.8020804@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C9FAB74.8020804@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ Cc: Andreas Born 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: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:18:02 -0000 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