Re: grub2 can't boot without active partition on Intel DG965RY

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:46PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> I've used grub2 on many Lenovo notebooks and Dell servers without any
> problem, but on the Intel DG965RY motherboard, it can't see the grub
> menu if the grub disk partition is not made active. Error is not boot
> device found. Simply activating the partition (fdisk -> select "a" to
> activate) would boot just fine.
> 
> On other systems, active partition is not needed, and the same USB
> device can boot fine.
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> I'm using latest grub from CVS. July 03 2007.

Sounds like a BIOS bug.  Does GRUB Legacy work when partition is not active?

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