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[bug #6373] "bad device number" == 8 devices max
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[bug #6373] "bad device number" == 8 devices max |
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Wed, 05 Nov 2003 02:37:38 -0500 |
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=================== BUG #6373: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=6373&group_id=68
Submitted by: gbnewby Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted on: Wed 11/05/2003 at 07:37
Category: Disk & Partition Severity: Major
Priority: None Bug Group: Non-software Error
Resolution: None Assigned to: None
Status: Open Release: 0.93
Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release:
Summary: "bad device number" == 8 devices max
Original Submission: In lib/device.c around line 428 we see that the device
number must be between 0 and 8. This causes the "bad device number" error
during "grub-install /dev/sda2" or similar, as well as complaints about stage1
being invalid.
I'm running on a JBOD system (no RAID) with 13 hard drives. Since I'm booting
from one of the first drives, I simply edited /boot/grub/device.map by hand and
truncated after the 9th entry. "grub-install" ran correctly.
If there is a subtle reason why only 9 device numbers are supported, it should
probably be mentioned in the grub info pages among the list of other errors
(i.e., a documentation fix). On the other hand, if we were just waiting for
someone to encounter this limit, here I am!
Thanks for great software!
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