I'm not certain this is part of the same issue but I'll post here for my sanity and anyone else who may be having the same issue.
I was using Grub 2 1.97 beta~4 with Ubuntu 9.10 and Vista. Prior to switching to 9.10 I was running 8.04 with GRUB since beta without issue. My problem is similar in the respect that I can boot to Vista or 9.10 fine, but upon switching I've had a couple of different problems. First, during reboot, my primary HDD would fail to boot and there was an audible "clicking". I naturally thought the HDD was failing. The drive is a WD2500JD. Nearly every time the clicking happened the drive would report itself as a "WDC ROM MODEL-HAWK" and would be unbootable. After a few power cycles I was able to get the HDD up and running and performed a backup. I attempted to sleep the computer in Vista and would sometimes blue screen upon waking. My Ubuntu loader/partition are on a completely separate drive and were unaffected by any of this. I've since restored the Vista boot loader and the drive has been fine since. I realize that the GRUB2 shouldn't affect the ability of the drive to boot and should have no ability to cause the drive to basically report a ROM failure but I can't wrap my head around all of the problems disappearing after removing it and going to the Vista loader. I'll give this current setup a couple of days to gather some historical data and then put GRUB back on for further testing. My specs: Asus P5Q mobo 1x WD2500JD 2x WD2000JB E8400 Core 2 @3.0Ghz Vista 64, Ubuntu 9.10 x64 -- grub fails after running Windows https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441941 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
