Re: [PATCH] Large disk support for XFS

[Monty Montgomery]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Monty Montgomery<address@hidden> wrote:
>> After applying the patch, "grub-probe -v -t fs /" and "grub-install
>> /dev/sda" both succeed without incident on the 6TB XFS volume.
>> However, upon reboot:
>>
>> GRUB loading.
>> Welcome to GRUB!
>>
>> Entering rescue mode....
>> error: out of disk
>> grub rescue>
>>
> Looks like biosdisk is unable to access post-2TiB. Can you try with
> ata.mod? (by adding --disk-module=ata to grub-install line)

No go.  This reports:

GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!

Entering rescue mode....
error: no such disk
grub rescue>

(this is a medium sized hardware RAID 6 configured to use LBA64)

Monty