Bug#566735: grub-pc: Unable to boot from LVM, "error: no such disk".

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 21.10.2010 02:49, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.98+20100804-4
> Severity: normal
>
> I've retested and this bug still exists so I'll reopen.  Here's the new
> behavior.  On boot it says:
>
> error: no such disk
> Entering rescue mode
> grub rescue>
>
> (i.e., only one error line rather than two).  lsmod shows:
>
> Name    Ref Count   Dependencies
> lvm     1
> part_msdos  1
> ext2    1           fshelp
> fshelp  2
> biosdisk    1
> minicmd 1
>
> and ls:
>
> (hd0) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
Could you try booting from external media and see how much sectors of
hd0 does the GRUB see? BIOS may not present the entire disk to the
bootloader. If it's so and the disk is ATA you can workaround it with:
grub-install --disk-module=ata /dev/sda

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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