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Bug #6593
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want LBA48 support in grub
Start date:
2016-02-01
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
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External Bug:
Description
As I learned the hard way recently grub silently truncates disk sector addresses to 32bits. This causes all sorts of pain when using large (>2TB) disks:
- we cannot install stage2 beyond 2TB, meaning that we can't boot off EFI partitions beginning beyond 2TB
- when rpool extends beyond 2TB on a disk we can get unexpected boot failures if the grub config file, the kernel, or the bootarchive are stored beyond the 2TB limit
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Updated by Hans Rosenfeld almost 8 years ago
Webrev: http://ma.nexenta.com/~woodstock/illumos-6593/
This just fixes the loading of files beyond 2TB.
Fixing loading of stage2 from beyond 2TB turned out to be quite difficult due to requirements for backwards compatibility and the necessity of fixing and testing all the grub commands that read/write it like install, blocklist, embed etc. As this is a rather esoteric feature I shelved that for now.
Updated by Electric Monk over 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 9890706ed36aa6bfca8ad283fbe4dac12ecd692b
commit 9890706ed36aa6bfca8ad283fbe4dac12ecd692b
Author: Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org>
Date: 2016-03-16T16:57:15.000Z
6593 want LBA48 support in grub
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <josef.sipek@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Updated by Joshua M. Clulow over 7 years ago
- Related to Bug #7223: grub "setup" built-in broken by 6593 added
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