Anthony Liguori wrote:
> In certain circumstances, the calculated CHS can result in a total number of
> sectors that is less than the actual number of sectors.  I'm not entirely
> sure why this upsets grub, but it seems to be the source of the Grub Error 18
> that sometimes occurs when using extboot.
>
> The solution is to implement the read drive parameters function and return the
> actual numbers of sectors.  This requires changing the QEMU <=> extboot
> interface as this was not previously passed to extboot.
>
>   

Applied, thanks.  Please separate qemu and extboot patches in the future.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.


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