SV: SV: Bug noted for Ubuntu 9.10 when changing boot order

[Kurt Poulsen]

Hello Rashkae

Thank ou very much, I will do as suggested when time pressure allows.
(Right now I fight an attack on XP where all acess to Microsoft sites are
blocked as well as all sites concerning virus programs)
Based on a "cleanup Antivirus" attack, what a wonderful bunch of jerks out
there.


Kind regards

Kurt

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Emne: Re: SV: Bug noted for Ubuntu 9.10 when changing boot order

Kurt Poulsen wrote:
> Hello Jeff
> 
> Thank you for your kind word and advices, I will do as suggested. I was in
> no way upset just "plain humble" hi !!
> I am very respectfull to the fantastic spirit and work the community is
> performing to the benefit of the entire world. These 25 PC's will be
> delivered to a Hospital in Rumania in the week between 17 and 25 april and
I
> am proud to be part of such a charity program.
> 
> Kind regard
> 
> Kurt 
>

Hi Kurt.

If you have a time to investigate this problem, here would be what I 
think some interesting information to gather.

1. Install Ubuntu as normal.

2. Gather the output of:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
sudo blkid

3.  Replicate the failure by changing the boot order in Bios.

4. Boot from the install live cd and use those commands (fdisk -l and 
blkid) again.

Unless I'm missing something, from what I gather in your first message, 
the grub2 device probe is corrupting the data on the hard drive when the 
BIOS boot order is FD first.  This is most certainly a bios bug, but 
severe enough that the grub developers will probably want to identify it 
and add a work-around.  However, this problem is probably unique to the 
hardware you were using, (and might also warrant a bios patch from the 
manufacturer if you can get their attention to the problem.)


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