"error: out of disk" grub rescue on first cold boot

[chris]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 02:47 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 02:09 AM, Jonathan M. Polom wrote:
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> If you have devices, but no par­ti­ti­ons, you’ll need a par­ti­tion 
> dri­ver. 

Question Goh  no partition.. surely the hard drive would have to have
one primary partition?
Chris
> It seems the default grub con­fig does not load any par­ti­tion 
> dri­ver, and debug­ging this is just a bit annoy­ing. But there’s two 
> easy choices for most people:
> 
>      Load the module “part_msdos”.
>      If this doesn’t help, try “part_gpt”.
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> 
> Hope this helps - Goh Lip
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