My ordeal with grub continues. I tried the bleeding edge GRUB, no change in behavior.
I realized that I had an additional source of information that I had been neglecting. The boot fixer thumb drive I had in the back of the mascheen was booting UEFI into a crappy bloating debian-ish thingy. It's using an ubuntu fork of Grub and kernel 3.13 (!!!!!!!) I tried to get it to load my main kernel, same error: Invalid sector size: [2^16 - 1].... Which is an indictment of how I set up my SSD. My procedure was as follows: 1. Take SSD out of shrink wrap. 2. Plug some random wires in. (I have a motherboard with a marvell secondary controller with a driver that doesn't request required resources from the IOMMU stack so I had to move things down to a working port, but well......) 3. Open Gparted 4. Create MFT partition table. 5. Allocate 0.1% of the drive to fat32 boot. (Okay, wasn't thinking too hard, it's pretty excessively big but well...) 6. Format everything else ext4, which some random website says was good for SSDs. So obviously I did everything completely, hopelessly, wrong, as usual..... Maybe there is some issue where the drive negotiated some state of the art protocol with the chipset that grub doesn't support? I have no idea what happens when I select the menu item that is supposed to load the kernel, I cannot prove that it's even loading the kernel image into memory. Linux is going to need a much lower fail factor for me to like it. =| -- Strange Game. The only winning move is not to play. Powers are not rights.
