=================== BUG #6373: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT =================== http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=6373&group_id=68
Submitted by: gbnewby Project: GNU GRUB Submitted on: Wed 11/05/2003 at 07:37 Category: Disk & Partition Severity: Major Priority: None Bug Group: Non-software Error Resolution: None Assigned to: None Status: Open Release: 0.93 Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: Summary: "bad device number" == 8 devices max Original Submission: In lib/device.c around line 428 we see that the device number must be between 0 and 8. This causes the "bad device number" error during "grub-install /dev/sda2" or similar, as well as complaints about stage1 being invalid. I'm running on a JBOD system (no RAID) with 13 hard drives. Since I'm booting from one of the first drives, I simply edited /boot/grub/device.map by hand and truncated after the 9th entry. "grub-install" ran correctly. If there is a subtle reason why only 9 device numbers are supported, it should probably be mentioned in the grub info pages among the list of other errors (i.e., a documentation fix). On the other hand, if we were just waiting for someone to encounter this limit, here I am! Thanks for great software! No Followups Have Been Posted CC list is empty No files currently attached For detailed info, follow this link: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=6373&group_id=68 _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
