Comment 20 for bug 10535

Apology to Angela Akridge, I claimed that the bug you described was not
relevant. Sorry for this, I noticed that you had described the same problem.

Anyway, may guess is simply that the "--force-lba" option may be needed
in some script, and in that case it could possible be experienced as a bug
even though it wouldn't really be a bug in grub but in the bios then...

Best regards
Roland

On 4/4/07, Roland Orre <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 4/4/07, resume-writer <email address hidden> wrote:
> > I don't know. What I do know is that I received that message. My boyfriend
> > (Solaris kernel engineer, thank God) had to edit some grub files or
> > something because Ubuntu overwrote my Windows boot loader with its Ubuntu
> > bootloader. Then, he had to manually edit some files to tell the boot loader
> > where to find the Windows partition. It was a total mess. I don't understand
> > most of what went wrong. But, the bottom line is that it wasn't Windows that
> > messed up. Ubuntu just doesn't know how to handle things when Windows is
> > installed prior to Ubuntu. Things are working well now. It's really not an
> > OS for human beings. I'll stick with my Windows, thank you.
>
> Sorry, but the way the person named Angela Akridge describe this make you
> sound more like a troll than anything else. I have used many different distros
> on plenty of machines since 1996 using both lilo and grub but never ever
> had the problem that a windows or dos partition would be ignored or the
> boot loader overwritten in the installation. On the other hand if you
> first install
> a linux distro and after that a window you get problems.
> Anyway, what you describe has nothing with this hanging to do so the place
> to write about this is not relevant.
>
> About the actual bug, I start suspect that it could be a problem with the
> bios on the actual M2N8-VMX motherboard where I experienced the
> hanging problem. After a kernel rebuild (to 2.6.20) the machine refused
> to boot, and it entered the grub shell all the time. Then I rerun the
> grub-install with the --force-lba option, and then it started smoothly.
>
> >
> > On 4/4/07, Steven Harms <email address hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is this bug still present in Feisty Beta?
> > >
> > > --
> > > GRUB hangs on "please wait" on ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10535
> > > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > > of the bug.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Angela Akridge
> > <email address hidden>
> > 408/393-9249 (cell)
> >
> > --
> > GRUB hangs on "please wait" on ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10535
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>