Re: GRUB is only able to setup root device to first eight hard drives

[Jan Holčapek]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Gregg Levine <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Jan Holčapek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> GRUB can only setup root device to first eight hard drives, as well as
>> perform find only on this limited number of drives.
>>
>> For more details and a patch which fixes the bug, see
>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3986
>>
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> Hello!
> Interesting. Are you aware that the original GRUB system has been
> depreciated in favor of GRUB2?

Oh yes, I am aware of that. However, though GRUB is claimed legacy, it is used
in active RHEL (and thus CentOS) releases (that is, in 5.x and 6
beta), and perhaps
in some other distros. And as I am on CentOS, this is why I am still
interested in having
this, possibly also for others' benefit, in legacy GRUB.

>
> Why not bring up this issue, but not necessarily the patch, on the
> appropriate lists? I believe they are listed on the pages for GRUB and
> GRUB2.

If you mean grub-devel, I know of this list. But I understand the list
is aimed to drive
GRUB2 development, and I explained above I would like to have this
fixed in legacy GRUB,
if at all possible.

>
> I also suspect that the people behind CENTOS, are also aware of this.

It was me who filed the CentOS bug, and I was encouraged to push it upstream.
So here I am :-)

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Jan Holcapek

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