From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a disk > 2 TB]
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:33:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090725163336.GK12326@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090724115745.GA17465@const.bordeaux.inria.fr>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:57:45PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is most probably a bug of the BIOS. I had pushed to bochs' BIOS
> a patch to implement LBA48 so as to overcome the LBA28 limitation
> (2^28*512 = 128GB), but it still has a 2^32 sectors limitation as all
> computations are done with 32bit integers, that's 2TB...
Actually, I fixed that a while ago. Recent bochsbios should support 48-bit
offsets.
But not all proprietary BIOSes do, of course.
--
Robert Millan
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-25 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 11:52 [Fwd: Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a disk > 2 TB] Felix Zielcke
2009-07-24 11:57 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-07-25 16:33 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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