*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 335174 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335174
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 335174
Machines with > 16 drives not supported
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Isn't there any solution?
See also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/922041?comments=all
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Title:
grub-installer fails if root
I think grub-pc is also affected by similar device name length issues.
I have a Sun Fire X4500 where the firmware is so strange only two of the
48 disk drives are exposed to the BIOS as boot disks. Ubuntu sees them
as /dev/sdy and /dev/sdag
I was able to shoe-horn an installation of 10.04.3 on by
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
grub-installer fails if root is on 27th disk
To manage notificatio
** Package changed: debian-installer (Ubuntu) => grub-installer (Ubuntu)
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Title:
grub-installer fails if root is on 27th disk
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Title:
grub-installer fails if root is on 27th disk
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Here's a patch that I tested out that handles two- and three-letter
drive names for /dev/sd... and /dev/vd...
I checked the kernel sources and /dev/hdX will never use multiple
letters, and /dev/sdX and /dev/vdX will only use one, two or three
letters. In my virtual test system as described above,
Looks like the bug is in this snippet of grub-installer:
# This code to set disc_offered was taken from lilo-installer
rootfs_nodevfs=$(mapdevfs $rootfs)
bootfs_nodevfs=$(mapdevfs $bootfs)
prefix=$(device_to_disk "$bootfs")
case $prefix in
/dev/md)
disc_offered_devfs="$bootfs"
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Title:
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