Bug#471395: Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-03-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:27:13PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: clone 450951 -1 retitle -1 int13 lba limited to 28-bit tags -1 fixed-upstream reassign -1 bochsbios found -1 2.3.6-2 thanks On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:16:43PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Robert Millan, le Mon 17 Mar 2008

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-03-18 Thread Robert Millan
clone 450951 -1 retitle -1 int13 lba limited to 28-bit tags -1 fixed-upstream reassign -1 bochsbios found -1 2.3.6-2 thanks On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:16:43PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Robert Millan, le Mon 17 Mar 2008 21:57:54 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:24:34PM +,

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-03-18 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:24:34PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Note: there is another bug in bochs's bios which prevents from testing with bochs or qemu the patch is available on the bochs list, I'll probably file a bug against the bochs package too. I found this:

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-03-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Robert Millan, le Mon 17 Mar 2008 21:57:54 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:24:34PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Note: there is another bug in bochs's bios which prevents from testing with bochs or qemu the patch is available on the bochs list, I'll probably file a bug

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-01-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:52:08PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Robert Millan, le Tue 01 Jan 2008 23:04:27 +0100, a écrit : When trying to install grub past 1TB, it fails with error 18 Can you reproduce this problem with GRUB 2 ? Nope, and the source code seems to show that

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:24:34PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Package: grub Version: 0.97-28 Severity: normal Hi, When trying to install grub past 1TB, it fails with error 18 (18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS). This is because the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl is limited

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2008-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Robert Millan, le Tue 01 Jan 2008 23:04:27 +0100, a écrit : When trying to install grub past 1TB, it fails with error 18 Can you reproduce this problem with GRUB 2 ? Nope, and the source code seems to show that HDIO_GETGEO's result is not really taken into account there :) What are the

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2007-11-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: grub Version: 0.97-28 Severity: normal Hi, When trying to install grub past 1TB, it fails with error 18 (18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS). This is because the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl is limited to 65535 cylinders (i.e. ~1TB), and for bigger values Linux just returns

Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

2007-11-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Mon 12 Nov 2007 16:24:34 +, a écrit : This is because the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl is limited to 65535 cylinders (i.e. ~1TB), and for bigger values Linux just returns 65535. Or not. Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt says: Not particularly useful with modern disk drives,