[CoLoCo] Gutsy bug #8497 (and other dozens)

[Collins Richey]

Just a heads up, Numerous users with multiple diskdrives are
encountering this problem that results in a system that fails to boot,
and there is no fix in sight. The bug has been assigned to grub.

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http://lwn.net/Articles/12334/ has a good summary of the problem:  "x86
systems suffer from a disconnect between what BIOS believes is the boot
disk, and what Linux thinks BIOS thinks is the boot disk.  This
manifests itself in multi-disk systems - it's quite possible to install
a distribution, only to fail on reboot - the disk installed to is not
the disk BIOS is booting from.  Dell restricts our possible standard
factory installed Linux offerings to "disks on no more than one
controller" to avoid this problem, but mechanisms now exist to solve it
and allow such configurations."

This bug is, as predicted, biting not just those doing a fresh install,
possibly for the first time, how off-putting!, but also those upgrading
from 7.04.

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