Comment 40 for bug 420933

Confirming this bug for me too.

If I set debug=disk in grub.cfg I can see GRUB agressivly reading from the harddisk. It especially searches hd0, where Windows Vista lives.

I removed every search command in grub.cfg, still it is searching the HD, I think, thats because it is looking for the GRUB modules.

I had grub2 installed under Intrepid, that worked like a charm (but that was 1.96 not 1.97). Since the update I have this annoying problem.

fdisk -l output:
Platte /dev/sda: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19457 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30000000

   Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 15 120456 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 16 1321 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1321 19131 143060992 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 19131 19458 2621440 f W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/sda5 19131 19458 2620416 dd Unbekannt

Platte /dev/sdb: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19457 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0xad5de7fd

   Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb2 * 1 19457 156288321 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 1 498 4000122 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 499 1020 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 1021 16686 125837110+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 16687 19457 22258026 83 Linux

Please make this bug critical.