Forwarding to upstream. Anyone knows why Sam's mails aren't echoed in the list, despite grub-devel@gnu.org is in CC ?
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > clone 423022 -1 > retitle -1 Errors that cause the user to enter rescue mode are not displayed > thanks > > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 14:10 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > 'grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img ext2 pc raid _chain' dumps me > > to the rescue console. > > > > I wonder if I am hitting the rescue console because of the "out of disk" > > error that I see when inserting the 'raid' module by hand? The > > partitions in my raid array are 300 GiB, which is larger than the 128 > > GiB limit imposed by LBA-28 addressing. > > I patched kern/disk.c to return GRUB_ERR_NONE instead of throwing the > 'out of disk' error and, now I can boot up perfectly! So it appears this > is indeed the problem. > > > If this is the case then I guess the error is really my fault and I > > should fix it by creating a separate partition at the start of the disk > > for /boot. However, the code that brings me to the rescue console > > doesn't actually print any errors, it just dumps me there, so I may just > > be barking up the wrong tree. :) > > Ideally grub would display the the error message that causes the user to > be thrown into the rescue console. > > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > deferred until grub actually tries to read a block that is out of range, > as grub-legacy does (even through it doesn't 'see' the RAID partition as > such, I can still boot from it without complaint). But this is less > important, as I should really have a working system to begin with. I > won't clone a separate bug for this unless you think it's worthwhile. > > I wonder if d-i warns the user that they may be creating an unbootable > system if the partition that contains /boot does not exist wholly within > the first 7.8 GiB/128 GiB/128 PiB (depending on the addressing mode in > use) of the disk? :) > > -- > Sam Morris > http://robots.org.uk/ > > PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 > 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
