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

[TJ Heaney]

Is there a common error when it fails to boot?

I know on my box, it allows me to do CTRL-D to bypass and it boots just
fine...

On 10/30/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> 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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