[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2015-01-07 Thread Wolle
ice while flashing the BIOS. After "boot-repair" totally cracked up everything (no more GRUB, whatever I did), the machine now runs 14.10. Thanks anyway Wolle -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2015-01-03 Thread Wolle
PS: If further information is required or useful, don't hesitate to explicitly tell me what information exactly I should post! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1091464 Title: Unable to

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2015-01-03 Thread Wolle
I can confim this, too. Machine is a Toshiba Satellite C850D - 119. Windows 8 has been pre-installed. The regular user isn't satisfied, so a Linux install was desired. Nevertheless, Windows 8 will still be required. The regular user is of very poor "computer know-how", so dual-booting via the GR

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-28 Thread Wolle
As I just reviewed this, I wanted to add, that the line "/usr/sbin/grub-setup: info: »/boot/grub/device.map« kann nicht geöffnet werden." in attachment grub-install.log would be "/usr/sbin/grub-setup: info: »/boot/grub/device.map« cannot be opened" in English. Usually the file really doesn't

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-27 Thread Wolle
Interesting: unknown boot code (?) on sda2 ?? ** Attachment added: "RESULTS.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/574883/+attachment/1811806/+files/RESULTS.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. h

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-27 Thread Wolle
le of /dev/sda... Searching sda1 for information... Searching sda2 for information... Searching sda5 for information... Searching sda6 for information... Searching sda7 for information... Searching sda8 for information... Searching sda9 for information... Finished. The results are in the file RESULTS

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-26 Thread Wolle
Okay, I'll give it a try later this day. In another discussion on this topic in a forum, I was advised to check the exit code. The grub-install command as stated above produces exit code 0. To speed things up: Would you like to have any other information than the output of grub-install, the booti

[Bug 587134] Re: Logitech PS2 mouse fails to initialize

2011-01-26 Thread Wolle
I've got exactly the same problem as stated in posting no. 5. I can use the mouse with buttons 1 and 2 (left, right), but the mouse wheel doesn't work at all... $ uname -a Linux name-here 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux user@name-here ~ $ tail /var/l

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-26 Thread Wolle
In a next attempt, I tried to install SliTaz3.0 into sda1, which brought its bootloader grub-legacy (installed to MBR of sda). I intended to use Slitaz for maintainig the main bootloader which would be grub-legacy then. Installing grub2 into the PBR of sda6 failed again, exactly the same results a

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-24 Thread Wolle
The above described obviously does only write parts of GRUB to the designated PBR. Performing start code insmod chain chainloader (hd0,6)+1 end code in order to chainload the partition prepared in the above mentioned way produces an error message "Booting a command list" aft

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-24 Thread Wolle
I continued to search for a solution and found: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall The I tried, what the manual proposes for some USB devices (last paragraph of the refered section): start code caelinux@caelinux:~$ sudo -i root@caeli

[Bug 574883] Re: Grub doesn't install to partition boot record (PBR)

2011-01-24 Thread Wolle
I can reproduce exactly the same behaviour. I installed the bootloader of my choice to MBR and intended to chainload several other OS from that. Two of those OS should be Mint10-64bit (based on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit) and CAELinux (based on Ubuntu 10.04 bit). Installing GRUB2 to their respective part