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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 18:10 +0000 schrieb Martin:
> 
> yeah, my first instinct was "BIOS problem", which was why I got the second
> motherboard.
> The ASRock was purchased in June, and the Gigabyte one was purchased on
> Monday.  I also
> noted that this happed with Ubuntu 9.04 server (on the ASRock), which I
> believe was still using
> GRUB Legacy.

Urgs so both mainboard were bought this year?
Then they shouldn't have a problem with 1,5 TB.

> Can you point me in the direction of some quality information on how the
> early stages of BIOS/booting/MBR work?  I'd like to create the minimal
> "hello world" case that will replicate the problem so I can isolate it. 

Sorry I'm not familiar with asm. I can only tell you that the GRUB 2 MBR
code is in boot/i386/pc/boot.S
But the code has comments.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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1.5 terabyte drives fail to boot
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