[grub #68] HP/Compaq EVO with Western Digital (wd) drive doesn't boot

[Frikkie]

Reporter: Frikkie Thirion
Summary: HP/Compaq EVO with Western Digital (wd)  drive doesn't boot
Version: 0.92 and 0.93
Type: software bug

Message:
Installing SuSE 8.1 with grub 0.92 on a Compaq EVO, model  D510EPC, results in 
a machine that won't boot. Grub gets to "stage 2" and freezes without providing 
the bootmenu. The installed hard drive is a: "Western Digital wd204eb-71cpf0".
I've also tried this with grub 0.93, build from source.

"dmesg" reports the following during bootup (using the CD to boot):
hda: safely enbaled flush
hda:39852288 sectors (20404mb) w/2048KiB cache,
       CHS=39536/16/63 UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [2048/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3


fdisk reports the following:
255 heads, 63 secotrs, 2480 cylinders
units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
         start    end    blocks        id    system
hda1   1         2          16033+    83   Linux
hda2   3        83       650632+    82   Linus swap
hda3  84   2480   19253902+    83   Linux

hda1 is 15mb, mounted on /boot
hda2 is swap
hda3 is /


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