[Bug 477430] Re: grub 2 error: out of disk. failed to boot default entries. press any key to continue...

[juanmatias]

bananabob:

Do you have a Gigabyte MB?
I had that problem with a GB. I don't know how GB handles the HPA writting process, but if you have a GB (or any other writting-HPA-motherboard) and you had the problem before you updated the BIOS, maybe you can get a try to hdparm to update the value in your disk. 
Think about this, my disk was used in a GB MB, then repartitioned, then formated, then installed in an ASUS.... and despite this MB does not write the HPA the value remained the same.

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Title:
  grub 2 error: out of disk. failed to boot default entries. press any
  key to continue...

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  I recently updated one of my computers to Ubuntu 9.10 and I've been
  trying to upgrade the bootloader to grub 2. The computer is an Acer
  TravelMate 240 but the hard drive died some time ago so I've been
  booting off a USB harddrive, because the computer's BIOS doesn't
  support USB boot, I'm using the PLoP Bootmanager on CD
  (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html) to chainload GRUB from the
  USB drive. GRUB legacy has been working fine like this for months.

  Now when I chainload GRUB 2 from GRUB legacy I get the following
  error:

  error: out of disk

      Failed to boot default entries.

  Press any key to continue...

  When I press a key the message just repeats. In order to boot and
  access the GRUB legacy menu, I have to do a CTRL+ALT+DEL. Please tell
  me if you need any more information to complete this bug report.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Nov  7 15:08:55 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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