[Bug 440587] Re: grub2: 'error: no such partition' when trying to boot from hd0, 10

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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

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Title:
  grub2: 'error: no such partition' when trying to boot from hd0,10

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Oct  2 16:14:42 2009
  Dependencies:
   base-files 5.0.0ubuntu6
   base-passwd 3.5.21
   coreutils 7.4-2
   debconf 1.5.27ubuntu1
   debconf-i18n 1.5.27ubuntu1
   dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2
   findutils 4.4.2-1
   gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu4
   grub-common 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
   libacl1 2.2.47-2
   libattr1 1:2.4.43-3
   libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu12
   libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu12
   libdb4.7 4.7.25-7ubuntu2
   libfreetype6 2.3.9-5
   libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4ubuntu4
   liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4build1
   libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu1
   libpam-modules 1.1.0-2ubuntu1
   libpam-runtime 1.1.0-2ubuntu1
   libpam0g 1.1.0-2ubuntu1
   libselinux1 2.0.85-2
   libstdc++6 4.4.1-4ubuntu4
   libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-5build1
   libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-1build1
   libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7
   lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu4
   lzma 4.43-14ubuntu1
   ncurses-bin 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu1
   perl-base 5.10.0-24ubuntu3
   sed 4.2.1-1
   tzdata 2009m-1
   ucf 3.0018ubuntu1
   zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13ubuntu3
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/sh
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

  I installed from xubuntu-9.10-alternative beta. Install goes ok. 
  On boot I get:
  ----------------------------------------------
  GRUB loading.
  error: no such partition
  grub rescue> ls
  (hd0) (hd0,7) (hd0,6) (hd0,5) (hd0,4) (hd0,3) (hd0,2) (hd0,1)
  error: out of disk
  grub rescue> set
  prefix=(hd0,10)/boot/grub
  root=hd0,10
  ----------------------------------------------

  
  root at toope:~# fdisk -l

  Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x0004038c

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1        2612    20980858+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda2            2613        3735     9020497+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda3            3736        3867     1060290   83  Linux
  /dev/sda4            3868       38913   281506995    5  Extended
  /dev/sda5            3868        6479    20980858+  83  Linux
  /dev/sda6            9092        9875     6297448+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda7            9876       28152   146809971   8e  Linux LVM
  /dev/sda8           28153       34680    52436128+  8e  Linux LVM
  /dev/sda9           34681       38913    34001541   8e  Linux LVM
  /dev/sda10           6480        9091    20980858+  83  Linux

  Partition table entries are not in disk order

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