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bug #11723: GRUB refuses to boot CD on USB drive

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Mon 24 Jan 2005 06:18:45 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  oddjobz
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Release:  0.94
Reproducibility:  Every Time Planned Release:  None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 04:55:55 PM UTC, comment #2: 

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it?

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Tue 07 Jun 2005 01:05:53 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I have this same problem on a machine with an AwardBIOS (6.00PG).
It seems that ISOLINUX can boot without any problems from my USB-CDROM drive.

After looking at the ISOLINUX sources, it seems it contains some specific workarounds/fixes for certain (award) bios'es that do not correctly provide information on the (CD) boot drive.

Since both projects use the GPL license, it might be possible to port this code from ISOLINUX to GRUB.

Jeroen Janssen <japj>
Mon 24 Jan 2005 06:18:45 PM UTC, original submission:  

Booting a GRUB CD on an internal IDE drive works fine.
(using (cd) as the setup and root device)

When booting from a USB drive, it merrily reports "loading Stage 2" , then dumps me at the "Grub>" prompt.

setup(<tab> gives me;
Possible disks are: hd0 cd

but;
setup (cd)

gives me;
Error 21: selected disk does not exist

Something lies!

Anyone any ideas?

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