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

[Liam Proven]

On 13 September 2011 12:48, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:44:08AM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 6 August 2011 13:57, Burton, Michael <Michael.Burton at xenuclear.com> wrote:
>> > Have you solved this yet? I am having the same problem.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I had it too with a test install of Oneiric on a
>> box which had been running Natty just fine.
>>
>> I retried with Lubuntu 11.10 beta 1 (as my dual-Athlon with 512MB RAM
>> was labouring to run Unity 2D, pretty as it was), and found that if I
>> created a 128MB ext2 /boot partition at the start of the disk, then
>> put / and swap into logical partitions, it worked fine.
>
> That would indicate that your BIOS is buggy and unable to read past a
> certain point on the disk.  If a BIOS upgrade is available it may help;
> otherwise your solution is the best available, until we get to the point
> where we can just have GRUB do its own ATA commands by default.

It could be, but the fact that it has recently started happening for
multiple people when older versions of Ubuntu worked without problem
would seem to suggest not, hmmm?

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