Bug 609153

Summary: Can't boot from 9th or further HDD.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Holcapek <holcapek>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: holcapek, jonathan, lkundrak, madhu.chinakonda, pjones, tsmetana
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Patch allowing GRUB for recognizing up to 128 hard drives. none

Description Jan Holcapek 2010-06-29 14:23:03 UTC
Created attachment 427699 [details]
Patch allowing GRUB for recognizing up to 128 hard drives.

Description of problem:
GRUB can't recognize, ie. can't be installed and load stage2 loader off the 9th and further HDD.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-0.97-64.fc13, but effectively any Legacy GRUB, ie. based on GRUB 0.97 sources.

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the installation on a HW setup with 9 (or more) hard drives.
2. Choose to install the OS on the 9th (or further) hard drive, use default disk layout.
3. Wait until the installation finishes, and reboot.
  
Actual results:
GRUB was root-ed on (hd7,0), ie. 8th hard drive.


Expected results:
GRUB should be root-ed on (hd8,0), ie. 9th (or further) hard drive.


Additional info:
Also affects grub-0.97-62.el6, and x86_64 arch.

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