grub2 can't boot without active partition on Intel DG965RY

[Jeff Chua]

I've used grub2 on many Lenovo notebooks and Dell servers without any
problem, but on the Intel DG965RY motherboard, it can't see the grub
menu if the grub disk partition is not made active. Error is not boot
device found. Simply activating the partition (fdisk -> select "a" to
activate) would boot just fine.

On other systems, active partition is not needed, and the same USB
device can boot fine.

Is this a known problem?

I'm using latest grub from CVS. July 03 2007.

Thanks,
Jeff.