Seems like 64bit filesystem/disk support isn't that well tested (Ok doestn't surprise me who has a > 2 Tib disk :))
-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Von: Marc Haber <mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de> > Reply-to: Marc Haber <mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de>, > 532...@bugs.debian.org > An: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Betreff: Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a > disk > 2 TB > Datum: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:51:23 +0200 > > Package: grub-pc > Version: 1.96+20090603-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I am trying to use grub2 to loopback boot an grml .iso file which is > stored on a 1000 cylinder partition on a 4 TB hard disk in virtualbox. > my grub configuration is the second one visible in > http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/825-grml-als-eigenes-Rescuesystem.html. > > This fails in two "interesting" ways: > > When I simply hit enter on the grub menu, I get "you need to load the > kernel first", and when I hit "e" afterwards, I only see the "loopback > oop (hd0,1)/grml/grml-small_2009.05.iso" line, neither the linux nor > the initrd line. > > When I directly go into "e" before actually trying to boot, I see the > full configuration, and Ctrl-X gets me to an "invalid magic number" > error message. > > When I try the same (identically configured grub2 on a 1000 cylinder > partition) on a 1 TB hard disk, everything is just fine. > > I do not know whether this is an issue with the virtualbox "BIOS" or > with grub2, and I do not have any real hardware with a disk that big, > but grub 2's behavior depending on whether I try to boot straight or > try to edit things first is interesting. > > The virtual hard disk .vdi file which can be used to reproduce this > with virtualbox-ose 2.2.4 from Unstable is 1.2 G uncompressed and 92 M > bz2 compressed, so it would be possible to upload the compressed image > to some server if you want to see it yourself. > > Greetings > Marc > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.4-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel -- Felix Zielcke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
