Re: GRUB2 fails when booting from CD

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 09/08/2010 06:31 PM, Andreas Born wrote:
> 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.
>
Looks like your BIOS has problems with cd drive. I attach 2 patches. One
to try to gather more info for better workaround and another one to
basically ignore cdinfo altogether. Could you test them?
> 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
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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