[Bug 634639] Re: 10.04.1 LTS Grub gives message error: out of disk

[Bananabob]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 477430 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477430

I have had the same problem for ages. I recently updated my bios so that it would recognize the 1TB disk correctly, as per this post
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/8433

The bios now does recognize the 1TB disk correctly but the PC will still
not boot from the 1TB disk on a "cold" boot, but after the PC has been
booted from another drive, I can do a reboot from the 1TB drive no
problems.

It would appear from this that the problem is with GRUB 2 and not with
the BIOS.

Why is this taking so long to get fixed?

James

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Title:
  10.04.1 LTS Grub gives message error: out of disk

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  I installed 10.04.1 LTS and have been getting "error: out of disk" messages on a "Cold Boot". That is one where you have to switch the PC on. It will boot, however if you push the "restart" button.
   
  Using the information in this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 I have been able to get more information about this bug
  .
  I reinstalled 10.04.1 LTS and tried this http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:write
  This isn't the problem because the grub.cfg no longer contains those lines
  .
  So I tried removing the "search --no-floppy" from grub-mkconfig_lib as per http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:search

  That didn't work. I got the following results:

  On a "restart" the system will boot.
  On a "Cold Boot" the system still gives the error: "out of disk" message

  I am left thinking that the code for a "restart" follows a different path than the code for a "cold boot", hence the reason a "restart" works. The other option is that the hard drive has not reached full speed by the time a read is required during a "cold boot"
  .
  Either way this is a major bug.

  This install was on a system using just SATA drives. I have installed
  10.04.1 LTS on a system using IDE drives. Maybe that is another clue
  to finding out what is causing this bug.

  I can not move forward with 10.04.1 LTS until this bug is fixed. Not
  what one expects from a LTS release.

  I have also posted this in an old bug report #477430

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