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

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 02.05.2011 02:42, Jonathan M. Polom wrote:
> Upon first cold boot, grub does not load the menu or operating system.
> Grub2 displays an "error: out of disk" and then goes to a grub rescue
> prompt. No length of idle time permits it to load the menu (IE: just
> leaving it alone does nothing to help the problem). The really weird
> thing is that if I run 'ls' at the rescue prompt and then execute CTRL
> ALT DEL to do a warm reboot, grub WILL load Ubuntu next time around. I
> do not have any other OS on the machine so grub is configured to just
> boot Ubuntu directly (no menu).
Try looking if BIOS setup has an option to increase the time it gives
for disks to come up.
--disk-module=ata / --disk-module=ahci (later only in experimental
branch) [depending on the mode of your SATA controller] might help.
In whole it sounds more like BIOS than GRUB issue.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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