[Bug 476066] [NEW] 1.5 terabyte drives fail to boot

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 01:58 +0000 schrieb Martin:
> I am running a typical RAID1 setup; it is as follows:
> 
> (md0) /boot is the first partition - it is RAID'ed but no LVM
> (md1) /root is next, RAID'ed, no LVM
> (md2) is a physical volume for LVM, and everything else lives there
> except swap
> (md3) is swap, and it lives at the end of the drives.
> 
> When I am using 1T drives, I have no problems.  I can plug in a blank
> 1.5T drive, partition it, and add it to the RAID.  However, when I try
> to boot from the 1.5T drive, the system hangs right after the BIOS
> splash screen.  No GRUB messages are displayed at all.  This happens
> on
> two different motherboards (ASRock and Gigabyte).
> 
> I am a software developer and am happy to help work on this if someone
> can point me in the right direction.

If there's not even the initial GRUB displayed, then either the BIOS has
a problem with that disk size and doestn't load MBR at all or the stage1
code in MBR has a bug with that BIOS.
But strange that this happens with 2 different motherboards.
Did both have the newest BIOS? And are these 2 not that old?

Maybe you could try with GRUB Legacy. If it at least displays GRUB.
For some people the GRUB Legacy BIOS code seems to work better.
Or *shrug* LILO.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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