Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error.

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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 told
> 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=off' 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.
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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