[Bug 734468] Re: Grub2 won't boot XP from second hard disk

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Grub2 won't boot XP from second hard disk

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  After working with contributors on this problem, it was suggested by
  one of them that I file a bug report. The original question is here:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/148849

  I'll summarize:

  I have a Dell Dimension 2400. In it I have put 2 PATA drives. The
  first was the original drive with XP, to which I added lubuntu. The
  second drive I added because of bugs in the original XP install that
  prevent it from seeing external storage media. I removed the original
  drive and installed XP to the second drive and all was well. After
  confirming the second drive was running, I added the first drive back
  in and booted lubuntu and used os-prober to create a grub menu that
  would boot lubuntu 10.10 first, my buggy XP install second, and the
  good XP install third.

  When I boot, I get the grub2 menu. lubuntu and the buggy xp copy boot
  OK. When I try to boot the good XP copy, I get:

  error: no such device 24f45c23f45bf590
  error: hd1, msdos1, cannot get c/h/s values

  and when I press Enter, I'm returned to the Grub2 menu. It had
  occurred to me that installing XP to the master hard disk and them
  making it the slave hard disk might be a problem in itself, but if I'm
  interpreting the error message correctly, grub is never handing off to
  ntldr and it's currently a grub2 problem, not an XP problem.

  I was asked to run a script that gathers diagnostic information on my boot setup. The results have been posted here: 
  http://paste.ubuntu.com/579774/

  To answer the 4 questions:
  1) Release: Ubuntu10.10
  2) Package Version:

  root at Dimension-2400:/home/matthias# apt-cache policy grub2
  grub2:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3
    Version table:
       1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3 0
          500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages
  It turns out grub is also installed - I hope that's not causing a problem:
  root at Dimension-2400:/home/matthias# apt-cache policy grub
  grub:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 0.97-29ubuntu60
    Version table:
       0.97-29ubuntu60 0
          500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

  3) I expected it to simply boot XP Pro from the second hard disk

  4) I ended up getting bumped back to the grub menu after the error:

  error: no such device 24f45c23f45bf590
  error: hd1, msdos1, cannot get c/h/s values

  The UUID value shown is correct for that drive.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: grub (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Mar 13 15:38:57 2011
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - i386 (20101010)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub

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