Comment 33 for bug 1047688

I've been having a similar problem, this happens when during a reboot, but if I start from cold boot it's fine. I have a Sony VAIO VCPEH 2H1E/w, and I have a Hitachi 2TB External HDD plugged in, whenever on a reboot and it's plugged in, the drive would begin to load up like if it was about to boot into something else on the drive, which I don't, except for maybe a few iso files which aren't setup to run in any way.

When I come to a reboot I get past the BIOS start-up spashscreen then it jumps strait to a blank screen with a blinking underline on the screen. Unplugging the external Hard Drive and rebooting seems to fix it temporarily, I even made a check into the BIOS Settings to make sure the main hard drive installed is booting first before everything else which it is.

Linux ***** 3.5.0-31-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 16 16:27:05 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux