Bug#450951: grub can't get installed past 1TB

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:52:08PM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Robert Millan, le Tue 01 Jan 2008 23:04:27 +0100, a écrit :
> > > When trying to install grub past 1TB, it fails with error 18 
> > 
> > Can you reproduce this problem with GRUB 2 ?
> 
> Nope, and the source code seems to show that HDIO_GETGEO's result is not
> really taken into account there :)
> 
> What are the plans for Lenny?  1TB disks will probably not be so
> uncommon during its future lifetime...

I would like to make GRUB 2 the default, but there are still some unresolved
issues.  More details at http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition

Help is, of course, much appreciated.

-- 
Robert Millan

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