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bug #19381: [grub2] only supports first 8 IDE disks

Submitted by:  Colin Watson <cjwatson>
Submitted on:  Thu 22 Mar 2007 09:16:18 AM UTC  
 
Category: BootingSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.97
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:09:08 PM UTC, comment #4:

Fixed, thanks.

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Thu 22 Mar 2007 11:08:13 AM UTC, comment #3:

Firstly, 16 is still less than 20.

Secondly, you're talking about GRUB's own device name representation. I'm talking about the way in which it scans system devices when constructing device.map. In GRUB Legacy, see lib/device.c:init_device_map; in GRUB 2, see util/i386/pc/grub-mkdevicemap.c:make_device_map. Search for "IDE disks" and you'll find that the same restriction exists in both.

Colin Watson <cjwatson>
Project Member
Thu 22 Mar 2007 10:33:20 AM UTC, comment #2:

This bug has been solved here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17882

#17882

I have seen the grub2 myself and it supports 16 disks, where do you see that it has the same problem?

adrian15

adrian15 <adrian15>
Thu 22 Mar 2007 09:17:17 AM UTC, comment #1:

By the way, code inspection indicates that GRUB 2 has the same problem.

Colin Watson <cjwatson>
Project Member
Thu 22 Mar 2007 09:16:18 AM UTC, original submission:

GRUB only supports the first 8 IDE disks (hda to hdh on Linux). Linux supports up to hdt, i.e. 20 IDE disks. As the Ubuntu installer maintainer, I've had a report from an Ubuntu user (https://launchpad.net/bugs/94642) whose GRUB installation failed because the root filesystem is on /dev/hdl1. Is there any reason not to change "for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)" to "for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)" for IDE disks?

Colin Watson <cjwatson>
Project Member

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:09:08 PM UTCrobertmhStatusNone=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Sat 15 Dec 2007 09:46:22 PM UTCrobertmhSummaryonly supports first 8 IDE disks=>[grub2] only supports first 8 IDE disks

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