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Re: [Fwd: Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a disk
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [Fwd: Bug#532202: grub-pc: behaves strange in virtualbox with a disk > 2 TB] |
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Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:33:36 +0200 |
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:57:45PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is most probably a bug of the BIOS. I had pushed to bochs' BIOS
> a patch to implement LBA48 so as to overcome the LBA28 limitation
> (2^28*512 = 128GB), but it still has a 2^32 sectors limitation as all
> computations are done with 32bit integers, that's 2TB...
Actually, I fixed that a while ago. Recent bochsbios should support 48-bit
offsets.
But not all proprietary BIOSes do, of course.
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Robert Millan
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