Bug#61513: marked as done (enabling `lba-support-bitmap-check' marks some systems unbootable)

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Subject: enabling `lba-support-bitmap-check' marks some systems unbootable
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Package: grub
Severity: normal
Version: 0.5.94

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:00:18PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> > I can access the whole drive after booting, both from Linux and from
> > Windows. I'm guessing something might have changed, but what? Can anyone
> > give me a hint where to look for anomalies?
> 
>   Read the file INSTALL. There's a new configure option. It is also
> mentioned in the file NEWS.

Ah, yes, I see now. The INSTALL file doesn't get installed by the packages
scripts (it shouldn't), but NEWS does.

This seems to be a change in behaviour, and gratuitous one, too, because it
worked before. Therefore I'm filing this as a bug to the Debian BTS. One
could argue that it's of higher severity, because it effectively made my
system unbootable, but there is a workaround (loading a kernel image from
<1024 cyls).

Anyway, I rebuilt grub (from CVS) with that option, and it now works fine.

Please provide a run-time switch/option to enable us people with Gigabyte
BX2000 motherboards with Award 4.51PG BIOSes, and >8GB hard drives to boot
properly :)

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