Comment 13 for bug 33649
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| Reuben Firmin (reubenf) wrote SATA / grub bug | #13 |
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Same here.
Ironically, grub was working just fine on Dapper flight installs until I installed a new IDE hard disk; configuration is now:
hdc: 200GB IDE
hdd: 40GB IDE
sda: 160GB SATA
I then used qtparted to alter the partitions on sda, rebooted, and grub crapped out with error 22. Since I've been on the upgrade path since hoary, I figured a fresh install of dapper wouldn't hurt.
I tried the dedicated install cd first, attempting to put / on the SATA disk. [NB - usb keyboard not supported!] Bad move all round; the grub install failed, and although the fallback lilo install claimed to have work, grub again chimed in with error 22 on the next reboot (grub had previously been on the MBR of hdd; therefore that probably wasn't touched by the lilo config.)
Then I ran the [kubuntu] live cd; it booted up once, allowing me to mount various partitions and move data around. I shut down, and later rebooted again on the live cd. This time it froze while trying to start X.
I reverted to the alternate install cd, and this time tried to install / on hdd. Grub tried to install to hd0, but again failed; this time, thankfully, the lilo install worked, and I'm up and running.
However, this was altogether pretty painful.