Description of problem: Fedora 17 x86_64 install to a massive 84 terabyte megaraid HW raid single drive. Everything works well. Here is the gdisk -l output: Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB EF02 2 4096 175781189631 81.9 TiB 8E00 ... and the lvs output: # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% root_fs VolGrp01 -wi-ao-- 48.00g swap VolGrp01 -wi-ao-- 32.00g tmp_fs VolGrp01 -wi-ao-- 2.00g So far, so good... until I create my VMs_nfs_store Logical Volume, of size 16.00 terabytes. Next boot grub2 refuses to operate, seems to read LVM structures just before displaying menu, never comes back from that, doesn't display menu at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub2-2.0-0.38.beta6.fc17.x86_64 grub2-tools-2.0-0.38.beta6.fc17.x86_64
Please try with the final grub 2.0 - for instance with yum --releasever=18 upgrade grub2 and install and mkconfig. That will give an indication whether a update/backport will fix be a viable solution.
Yes, that works! grub2-2.00-12.fc18.x86_64 fixes the issue. Can you take this or the upcoming final version of grub2 from F18 to F17 ?
The bootloader is a very critical component to update. I doubt the package maintainer wants to update it in f17 ... but this is one argument for doing it.
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