Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

["Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, August 7, 2008 13:36, Ed Harrison wrote:

> > In a related problem, when my external USB disk, or any random USB
> > stick,
> > is plugged in, then I cannot boot, no valid boot device found.
> > Unplug all USB devices and it works like a charm.
> > I alread plugged all USB disks/sticks into an USB hub so I only have to
> > unplug one cable.
> Check your CMOS boot order and see that only a fixed harddrive or CD-ROM
> is listed ahead of anything that could describe a usb device.

OK, I did that.
When de USB drive is plugged in, it works perfectly.
But now when the USB drive is not plugged in, I get grub error 17.

I'm really suspicious that Grub has "issues" with detecting the correct
hard disk order.
I had a similar problem with Grub back when I still used Ubuntu. Clean
install from the cd, first boot --> Grub error. And I had only accepted
the setup defaults!
The solution was booting with a Knoppix cd, and manually reinstalling
Grub, or changing something in menu.lst, I don't remember the exact
details.

Is it possible tha Grub has "issues"? Or am I calling it a "bug" too soon
and is it just a problem between keyboard and chair? ;-)

-- 
Amedee

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