LM13 64bit Grub issues.

[Scucci]

I've been fighting this for days now, ever since I installed Maya.

Quick rundown; not dual booting, single SATA drive, 249GB partition, 1GB swap (rounded). 10, 11, and 12 all installed and ran fine on this machine (Compaq TC4400 tablet laptop)

I installed Mint13 from USB. On the boots after that I would get errors "out of disk" "no suitable mode found".

I tried all the fixes I've read about so far (grub-update, grub-install)... those actually made it worse and now I have to manually start Linux up from the "grub>" prompt now as it's the only thing that comes up when I boot. ... it's really more of a PITA than I'd like. I've tried removing and reinstalling Grub, and Grub2, and Burg... nothing works... just get that prompt when I boot now.

Also... I'm NOT reinstalling Maya again... when I was first getting the issue with "out of disk" "no suitable mode found" I re-installed the OS about 5 times, didn't fix a thing and just wasted my time. The system runs fine once I'm in the OS (doing it manually)... but I can't for the life of me figure out confused I need to do to get Grub working, and working right.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[Scucci]

As always... ask a question, then stumble upon the answer... go figure. Anywho, replying so that others in the same situation can try it out.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/143667/boot-errors-no-such-device-grub-rescue

While not completely related to the issue, it seemed to work for me for some reason.

*note: where the article steps say "/home/ubuntu/temp"... from the Mint liveCD it'll be "/home/mint/temp".

After following those steps I am able to boot now using the Grub menu (which NEVER showed up in Maya until after I followed the instructions on that page), I would get an "error: out of disk" message while it was booting; commented a few lines out of grub.cfg and that took care of that.

So... up and running, fully, properly'sh... finally.

Something really needs to be looked at in the LiveCD image because while I was on the IRC channel looking for help, there are others that are going though Grub issues as well with Maya 64bit... something is screwy in there.