[Bug 604743] Re: grub-pc in gpt drive does not boot other drives

[Rolf Leggewie]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  grub-pc in gpt drive does not boot other drives

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in grub2 source package in Lucid:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  grub-pc installed on gpt drive sdb boots Ubuntu install on sdb but will not boot windows in sda or other Ubuntu installs in sdc.
  Since I was booting directly from sdb I tried changing drive numbers 0,1, & 2 in set root with same results.

  Windows boot error:
  error: no such device 046.... (correct UUID for win on sda1 NTFS)
  error: invalid signature

  Ubuntu boot error for install on sdc5
  error: not such device 1174... (corrrect UUID for Ubuntu on sdc5)
  error: you need to load the kernel first

  Same as above for sdc7 with correct UUID for sdc7 shown.

  
  fred at fred-DTgpt:~$ apt-cache policy grub-pc
  grub-pc:
    Installed: 1.98-1ubuntu6
    Candidate: 1.98-1ubuntu6
    Version table:
   *** 1.98-1ubuntu6 0
          500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1.98-1ubuntu5 0
          500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

  fred at fred-DTgpt:~$ uname -a
  Linux fred-DTgpt 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  fred at fred-DTgpt:~$ lsb_release -d
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

  fred at fred-DTgpt:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sdb
  Installation finished. No error reported.
  fred at fred-DTgpt:~$ sudo update-grub
  Generating grub.cfg ...
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
  Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
  Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sda1
  Found Ubuntu 9.10 (9.10) on /dev/sdc5
  Found Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (10.04) on /dev/sdc7
  done

  I was helping this user and he had the same issue. He converted drive to MBR and reinstalled.
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1528910

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