Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a disk > 2 TB

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Fri Jul 24 11:59:11 UTC 2009


Hello,

Marc Haber, le Sun 07 Jun 2009 14:51:23 +0200, a écrit :
> I do not know whether this is an issue with the virtualbox "BIOS" or
> with grub2,

Most probably a BIOS bug.  I had pushed to bochs' BIOS a patch to
overcome the 128GB limitation of LBA28, but left the code doing sector
computations with 32bit integer, i.e. 2TB...

Samuel





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