GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #39216, Fails to go into GRUB menu with...
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bug #39216: Fails to go into GRUB menu with 2TB USB NTFS formated hard drive attached.
Submitter: | BryanFRitt <bryanfritt> | ||
Submitted: | Sun 09 Jun 2013 10:13:38 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Software Error |
Status: | Invalid | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | other |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
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Mon 15 Jul 2013 07:41:59 AM UTC, comment #6: |
BryanFRitt <bryanfritt> |
Sun 14 Jul 2013 10:08:31 PM UTC, comment #5: Yes, why not, it could be also the case.
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Ales Nesrsta <starous> |
Sun 14 Jul 2013 09:16:29 PM UTC, comment #4: I don't think that the drive size was the actual issue. It sounds more like BIOS was configured to boot from this drive and it did so yet since there was no useful code there it hanged. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Sat 15 Jun 2013 05:56:36 PM UTC, comment #3:
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Ales Nesrsta <starous> |
Sat 15 Jun 2013 12:37:49 AM UTC, comment #2: Thanks! That fixed it!
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BryanFRitt <bryanfritt> |
Fri 14 Jun 2013 09:30:28 PM UTC, comment #1: Hi,
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Ales Nesrsta <starous> |
Sun 09 Jun 2013 10:13:38 PM UTC, original submission:
GRUB 1.99-27+deb7u1
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BryanFRitt <bryanfritt> |
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"I don't think that the drive size was the actual issue. It sounds more like BIOS was configured to boot from this drive and it did so yet since there was no useful code there it hanged."
Maybe it was something neither of these? not that I know what. keep reading...
"Fortunately, even it was probably bad idea, it pointed also to BIOS boot settings, where Bryan finally found the solution himself - so, it could be rare example, how also bad diagnose can lead sometimes indirectly to correct solution of the problem... :-)"
nicely said :-)
I think of changing the BIOS settings not to attempt to boot from USB as more of a workaround that's good enough for me, than a "correct solution".
I set USB to being first and tried booting with another external HD hooked up via USB (it is a 1TB GF1000Q), the BIOS then correctly booted into the internal HD's GRUB... Shutdown and replaced with the 2TB drive from before, and it didn't boot. (Got stuck at the same screen as before, a blinking '_' without the quotes, just before GRUB starts)
Maybe it's a compatibility issue between the BIOS and the drive, or how it's formated?
Now, I've now put last USB as last in Boot Sequence, and it still boots with this drive attached. AKA if it finds nothing else that's bootable it'll then try the USB. Of course it finds the internal hard drive first, and won't even bother trying to boot from USB. (in the rare case where the internal harddrive, etc... is missing, or broken, the USB boot option can be used. Even if it hangs then, it wouldn't matter, the computer wouldn't have booted either way)
turn on -> F2 -> System -> Boot Sequence -> USB Storage Device -> ...