Package: debian-installer Severity: normal This is not a bug about a problem I found, but about a problem I think can become common with the introduction of >2 TiB disks.
A while ago, I found that bochsbios (the free BIOS used by bochs and qemu) had an incomplete implementation of LBA48 that caused a fatal error when attempting to access a disk sector above 2^32: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1921733&group_id=12580&atid=312580 Although this was fixed, seening how often it happens that we find bugs in all the variety of BIOS implementations out there, I would expect some of them will have similar problems. Of course, there's no way for me to reliably find how common will this be; perhaps we're lucky and bochsbios is the only one which had this, but I think it's better to be safe than sorry, so I would propose that D-I avoids possible problems by generating a separate /boot in the default partition layout whenever the disk size is above 2 TiB. Excuse me for not providing a patch, but I'm totally clueless about how the auto-partitioning heuristics work. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
