Bug#282661: grub with more than eight disks

[Björn Torkelsson]

Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-11
Severity: normal

Hi,

Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=/tmp/target /dev/sdi'
fails with:

grub> root (hd0,2)
 Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0xfd
 grub> setup  --stage2=/tmp/target/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/grub (hd8)

 Error 12: Invalid device requested
 grub> quit

Trying with sda-sdh works without a problem, so I suspect that somewhere
in the code it hardcodes a limit of eight disks.

Our setup are a total of 16 disks on two different controllers, and in
the end we aim at software mirroring the first and ninth disk which is
why I want to install grub on /dev/sdi

Despite the information below, I'm actually trying this on an Opteron
running the pure64 port, but I highly suspect that I would have seen the
same error on an i386 machine.

/torkel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information