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

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Fri Jan 22 17:24:44 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:59:11PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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...

Does this happen with recent bochsbios?  My fix for this was released with
bochs 2.3.7.

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