I decided to upgrade my old PVR to mythbuntu 9.10 and discovered the hard way that this machine has the "no such device" problem. fwiw, it has an AthlonXP-vintage MSI motherboard using ATA hard drives. After much frustration I found this thread, and have been able to get the machine to boot by removing the --search line.
I currently have the system configured as a single 250GB (entire drive) partition (not really what I want, but figured it was the simplest scenario for debugging) Since I need to reinstall anyway, I have tried out the suggestion from Jordan in #42 and it appears to work, but there's a catch. It's VERY slow. Machine POSTs, then I get the "GRUB Loading" message. Sits there for about 31 seconds, then the hard drive starts to thrash. This goes on for another 95 seconds, then I get the mythbuntu bootsplash and the system boots as normal. Total time from GRUB loading to bootsplash is just over 2 minutes. This strikes me as kind of a long time, considering the same machine can manage the same operation with old grub in a second or two. I suspect (hope) that at least some of the slowness is attributable to the big partition. I plan to try again with a small boot partition and see if this improves things any. I don't yet know if this workaround will survive an update (had the system up-to-date before I tried it out) but I'll see if I can test that out on the next attempt and report back. -- Grub 2 problem, error: no such device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
