[Bug 446796] Re: No OS found on power up

[josephpatterson]

I tested this problem as per your suggestions and find the problem does
not occur on either the 9.10 release or the upstream kernel. A bug update
was submitted and status changed to fixed.
Joseph Patterson


> Hi josephpatterson,
>
> This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it
> recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with
> the latest development release of Ubuntu?  ISO CD images are available
> from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .
>
> If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a
> Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal).  It will automatically
> gather and attach updated debug information to this report.
>
> apport-collect -p linux 446796
>
> Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be
> great.  It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue.
>  Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds .  Once you've
> tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing'
> tag.  This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the
> tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the
> 'needs-upstream-testing' text.  Please let us know your results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> ** Tags added: needs-kernel-logs
>
> ** Tags added: needs-upstream-testing
>
> ** Tags added: kj-triage
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> No OS found on power up
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446796
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> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am using a new Dell E6500 Latitude laptop with Ubuntu 9.04 installed. I
> commented out the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager to suppress the
> graphics login while debugging changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  When the
> changes to xorg.conf were satisfactorily implemented, I removed the
> comment indicator from the line in default-display-manager. I performed a
> reboot as root. When the system finished the bios screen, it stopped with
>
> No OS found
> Insert OS setup disk, then press any key
>
> I expected the grub loader menu to come up. It did not.
>
> If I power off and press f12 for a one time diagnostics menu, I get a
> diagnostics screen that allows selecting the boot source (i.e., usb
> drive/CDROM/hard disk drive/diagnostics suite). If I select hard disk
> drive, then grub comes up and the boot sequence is normal from there.
>
> Although my configuration includes a second monitor, I have repeated this
> process on a second E6500 that only has the laptop display and suffered
> the identical problem. I repeated this process on the one without a second
> display because the xorg.conf above fixed the resolution problem with
> Ubuntu 9.04 not recognizing the 1920x1200 display on the laptop and only
> permitted 1600x1200 resolution on the laptop display. Setting the virtual
> attribute in xorg.conf allows the display to use its 1920x1200 resolution.
> The default xorg.conf restricts the display to 1600x1200.
>
> I suspect that disabling the GDM window manager caused some change in the
> initialization sequence that is not recovering when it is reenabled. I did
> this same thing on Ubuntu 8.04 and did not have this problem. The default
> 8.04 xorg.conf is substantially different from default 9.04 xorg.conf.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=f5788e80-4ca3-4601-afe8-6fa5fac483ae
> MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Package: linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic 2.6.28-15.52
> ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=3b8d9684-1fd1-4fc9-8c36-3c08a5f53de3 ro xforcevesa
> quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-15.52-generic
> SourcePackage: linux
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