Darrick J. Wong wrote: > I'm trying to install grub on a device-mapper RAID1 array that I set up > via dmraid (in other words, a bootable software fakeraid). Since dm > doesn't implement the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl, grub assumes that the CHS > geometry is 620/128/63, which makes it impossible to configure it to > boot a filesystem that lives beyond the 2GB mark, even if the system > BIOS supports that. > > The attached patch implements a simple ioctl handler that supplies a > compatible geometry when HDIO_GETGEO is called against a device-mapper > device. FYI, I made a patch a year ago or so that achieves the same, only in GRUB land. I like your approach just as well (and my patch was ugly and needed TLC badly), so cool. You might want to cc: your patch to Peter Jones or someone from Fedora Core, just in case they picked up that ugly Grub thing I did, so they can remove that and use yours instead :-)... -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
