From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH][EXTBOOT] Fix read drive parameters to solve Grub Error 18
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:06:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CE4689.1000009@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204652673-11492-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> In certain circumstances, the calculated CHS can result in a total number of
> sectors that is less than the actual number of sectors. I'm not entirely
> sure why this upsets grub, but it seems to be the source of the Grub Error 18
> that sometimes occurs when using extboot.
>
> The solution is to implement the read drive parameters function and return the
> actual numbers of sectors. This requires changing the QEMU <=> extboot
> interface as this was not previously passed to extboot.
>
>
Applied, thanks. Please separate qemu and extboot patches in the future.
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2008-03-04 17:44 [PATCH][EXTBOOT] Fix read drive parameters to solve Grub Error 18 Anthony Liguori
2008-03-05 7:06 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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