Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Chris Fisichella a écrit :   Using the BIOS to emulate Native Mode IDE is making the machine behave better. What was the previous mode ? AHCI, RAID ? I at least reached a grub> prompt. So, I think it found the disk. Finally. :) How is that better than before ?

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Brian a écrit : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: grub rescue> ls returns a single blank line. Which dowsn't look very healthy. GRUB doesn't see any disks. Indeed. To be honest, I don't even see how this can possibly happen and how to

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Chris Fisichella a écrit : >> > Using the BIOS to emulate Native Mode IDE is making the machine behave > better. What was the previous mode ? AHCI, RAID ? > I at least reached a > grub> > prompt. So, I think it found the disk. Finally. :) How is that better than before ? What does 'ls' print ?

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Brian a écrit : > On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: >> >> grub rescue> ls >> >> returns a single blank line. > > Which dowsn't look very healthy. GRUB doesn't see any disks. Indeed. To be honest, I don't even see how this can possibly happen and how to fix it. Obvious

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Chris Fisichella : Quoting Brian : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? grub rescue> grub rescue> l

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Brian : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? grub rescue> grub rescue> ls returns a single blank li

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: > Quoting Pascal Hambourg : > > >Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and > >what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? > > grub rescue> > grub rescue> ls > > returns a single blank line

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Chris Fisichella a écrit : I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64 on an HP dc5850. The install went fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads and reports: error: no such disk Before displaying the boot menu or after starting a boot entry

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Chris Fisichella a écrit : > > I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64 on an HP dc5850. The install went > fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads > and reports: > > error: no such disk Before displaying the boot menu or after starting a boot entry ? > I booted into

Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-13 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64  on an HP dc5850. The install went fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads and reports: error: no such disk I booted into rescue mode using DVD 1, went to a shell and ran: # fdisk -l /dev/sda boot