[bug #19381] only supports first 8 IDE disks

[Colin Watson]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19381>

                 Summary: only supports first 8 IDE disks
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: cjwatson
            Submitted on: Thursday 22/03/07 at 09:16
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 0.97
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

GRUB only supports the first 8 IDE disks (hda to hdh on Linux). Linux
supports up to hdt, i.e. 20 IDE disks. As the Ubuntu installer maintainer,
I've had a report from an Ubuntu user (https://launchpad.net/bugs/94642)
whose GRUB installation failed because the root filesystem is on /dev/hdl1.
Is there any reason not to change "for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)" to "for (i = 0; i
< 20; i++)" for IDE disks?




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