Comment 21 for bug 10535

I know what a bios is, and I do recall something cool about my boot messages
saying RAID Bios, blah blah. But, that's all I can say. To fix the problem,
I just know that my boyfriend had to use some syntax from this post
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351. I must admit, Windows would
overwrite the Ubuntu bootloader if I had only Ubuntu installed at the time
that I tried to create a dual boot. So, Windows doesn't handle this
situation any better either. I have higher expectations for Unix then
Windows. That's not very nice, and I apologize. I just got frustrated
because I really wanted to install Ubuntu on my own, without needing my
techie boyfriend to jump in an rescue me. I did do the partition on my own
(though I was very scared). I appreciated the messages that told me the
recommended swap, and stuff--for whatever that's worth. Good luck
troubleshooting. Better you than me. :)

Angela

On 4/4/07, Roland Orre <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
> > >
> >
>
> --
> 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)