Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146276
Grub Disk Boot Failure on cold boot
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I am using Fedora Core 3 (FC3) with the latest updates/upgrades. Upon a cold boot, I receive the following message: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter. A warm boot is successful with grub stage 2 (grub 2) grub-0.95-3 I have replaced the motherboard, an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with a new one. I have tried the latest bios 1013 for the motherboard as well as an older one 1012. I have tried a new booting hard drive. I have essentially tried replacing all the hardware, everything but I still cannot do a cold boot. I believe that grub FC3 is at fault. Please assist. Thanks, Jerry Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC3 on Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with latest bios. 2.Use up2date to update/upgrade system 3.Logg off, then do cold boot. Actual Results: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter. Expected Results: Should have a successful Grub stage 2 boot Additional info:
This sounds like a drive that's not spinning up quick enough, or something along those lines. In any case, that error message comes from the BIOS -- it's before grub is loaded at all.