"error: out of disk" grub rescue on first cold boot

Jonathan M. Polom s0nic0nslaught at gmail.com
Mon May 2 19:47:58 UTC 2011


You can place filesystems on drives without a partition table. A lot
of RAID setups do that.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:36 PM, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 02:47 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>> On 05/03/2011 02:09 AM, Jonathan M. Polom wrote:
> <snip>
>> If you have devices, but no par­ti­ti­ons, you’ll need a par­ti­tion
>> dri­ver.
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> Question Goh  no partition.. surely the hard drive would have to have
> one primary partition?
> Chris
>> It seems the default grub con­fig does not load any par­ti­tion
>> dri­ver, and debug­ging this is just a bit annoy­ing. But there’s two
>> easy choices for most people:
>>
>>      Load the module “part_msdos”.
>>      If this doesn’t help, try “part_gpt”.
>>
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>> Hope this helps - Goh Lip
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