Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090603-1 Severity: normal Hi,
I am trying to use grub2 to loopback boot an grml .iso file which is stored on a 1000 cylinder partition on a 4 TB hard disk in virtualbox. my grub configuration is the second one visible in http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/825-grml-als-eigenes-Rescuesystem.html. This fails in two "interesting" ways: When I simply hit enter on the grub menu, I get "you need to load the kernel first", and when I hit "e" afterwards, I only see the "loopback oop (hd0,1)/grml/grml-small_2009.05.iso" line, neither the linux nor the initrd line. When I directly go into "e" before actually trying to boot, I see the full configuration, and Ctrl-X gets me to an "invalid magic number" error message. When I try the same (identically configured grub2 on a 1000 cylinder partition) on a 1 TB hard disk, everything is just fine. I do not know whether this is an issue with the virtualbox "BIOS" or with grub2, and I do not have any real hardware with a disk that big, but grub 2's behavior depending on whether I try to boot straight or try to edit things first is interesting. The virtual hard disk .vdi file which can be used to reproduce this with virtualbox-ose 2.2.4 from Unstable is 1.2 G uncompressed and 92 M bz2 compressed, so it would be possible to upload the compressed image to some server if you want to see it yourself. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.4-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
