Hi, I rebuilt grub2 from Debian unstable sources with the following
patch applied and have no longer had to manually remove the "search"
line in my grub.gfg in order to boot on a hard disk with /boot partition
visible to the BIOS where the entire disk is bigger than what the BIOS
recognises.
This *is* a relatively common configuration for old machines with
replaced hard disks.
Someone suggested posting this patch here. I forget who posted it in
IRC, but it worked (-:.
There is still one error message about a filesystem with a particular
UUID not being found, but the boot process is now automatic.
Arthur.
*** kern/device.c 2009-11-30 13:12:15.000000000 +1030
--- ../device.c 2009-11-30 19:27:03.000000000 +1030
*************** grub_device_iterate (int (*hook) (const
*** 109,114 ****
--- 109,116 ----
(void) grub_partition_iterate (dev->disk, iterate_partition);
grub_device_close (dev);
+ grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE;
+
p = ents;
while (p != NULL)
{
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