Alternative booting

[David Krings]

Chris Jones wrote:
>> Also, my first partition is for XP and 30G, so if 8G is the magic limit
>> then how come that GRUB booted fine several times with that setup?
>> Again, I am very sure that I am not victim of any BIOS limitations, but
>> that GRUB does one thing five times in a row as expected and just
>> doesn't do it a sixth time around for reasons unknown.
> 
> Do you change anything (updates etc.) between the 5th and 6th boots ? If not, 
> this is starting to sound like flaky hardware to me...

Yes, I installed the 167 updates that came up.

> If you do, then what - If it is anything to do with grub/kernels I still 
> maintain it sounds like you have part of your filesystems that are needed by 
> grub, written to a part of your system grub cannot reach for whatever reason.

Which is unfortunate and is a GRUB/kernel issue.