From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MUkBx-0006ce-H7 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:33:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUkBu-0006cZ-Sf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:33:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUkBo-0006ZC-OQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:33:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58216 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUkBo-0006Z7-I8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:33:40 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:36817) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUkBo-0005Nd-7R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:33:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUj5k-0002GM-0u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:23:20 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUkBk-0003IZ-UM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:33:36 +0200 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:33:36 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090725163336.GK12326@thorin> References: <1248436320.3510.22.camel@fz.local> <20090724115745.GA17465@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090724115745.GA17465@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a disk > 2 TB] X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:33:47 -0000 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 The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."