Bug#485790: generate separate /boot as workaround for buggy LBA48 ?

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> This is not a bug about a problem I found, but about a problem I think
> can become common with the introduction of >2 TiB disks.
>
> A while ago, I found that bochsbios (the free BIOS used by bochs and
> qemu) had an incomplete implementation of LBA48 that caused a fatal
> error when attempting to access a disk sector above 2^32:

There is also the (already current and somewhat common, see e.g. #481169) 
issue described here:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18

That is something we also do not handle, so I don't know why your case 
should be different.

I wonder what we should do about this:
- just always create a /boot partition when guided partitioning is used
- add some special cases, but how to reliably detect them?
- always ask if a separate /boot should be created (or probably better:
  create separate recipes for that)
- only document the issues and how to solve them manually

Cheers,
FJP