[CoLoCo] Gutsy bug #8497 (and other dozens)

[TJ Heaney]

Wouldn't surprise me. Any resources on fixing my hosed fstab?

On 10/30/07, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
>
> I don't have this problem. Is it random, related to what BIOS you have
> or how it's set up? In my experience, the ctrl-d to escape the
> maintenance shell bit happens when fstab is hosed. Maybe it's a fstab
> issue.
>
> Jim
>
> On 10/30/07, TJ Heaney <tjheaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a common error when it fails to boot?
> >
> > I know on my box, it allows me to do CTRL-D to bypass and it boots just
> > fine...
> >
> >
> > On 10/30/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just a heads up, Numerous users with multiple diskdrives are
> > > encountering this problem that results in a system that fails to boot,
> > > and there is no fix in sight. The bug has been assigned to grub.
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > http://lwn.net/Articles/12334/ has a good summary of the
> problem:  "x86
> > > systems suffer from a disconnect between what BIOS believes is the
> boot
> > > disk, and what Linux thinks BIOS thinks is the boot disk.  This
> > > manifests itself in multi-disk systems - it's quite possible to
> install
> > > a distribution, only to fail on reboot - the disk installed to is not
> > > the disk BIOS is booting from.  Dell restricts our possible standard
> > > factory installed Linux offerings to "disks on no more than one
> > > controller" to avoid this problem, but mechanisms now exist to solve
> it
> > > and allow such configurations."
> > >
> > > This bug is, as predicted, biting not just those doing a fresh
> install,
> > > possibly for the first time, how off-putting!, but also those
> upgrading
> > > from 7.04.
> > >
> > > ---
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