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Installation on ProLiant Microserver Gen8

Asked by Marten Jacobs

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 to a USB stick inserted into the internal USB2.0 port from a USB stick inserted into one of the front usb ports. I disabled the SmartRAID controller in the BIOS , as suggested (but I don't think this should be relevant, as the RAID array has nothing to do with the boot sequence). I'm using pretty much all the default installation settings. Installation completes as expected, but after removing the installation media and rebooting, the system drops into a grub-rescue console, giving me the error "attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'".

In this shell, I tried the following:

> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)

> ls (hd0)
(hd0): Filesystem is unknown

> ls (hd0,msdos1)
(hd0,msdos1): Filesystem is ext2

> ls (hd0,msdos1)/boot

error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

What am I doing wrong?

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Marten Jacobs (3-mais-s) said : 		#1

I just noticed that if I do 'ls /', I get a (seemingly correct) file list of the drive, but if I then do 'insmod normal', which is what I read I should do, I get the same "attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'"

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Marten Jacobs (3-mais-s) said : 		#2

Fixed it with boot-repair using a Ubuntu Desktop live iso. See also http://askubuntu.com/questions/588439/proliant-microserver-gen8-clean-install-drops-into-grub-rescue-shell