Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

2009-08-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de [2009.07.24.1410 +0200]: We currently use in grub-setup ioctl (GET_ARRAY_INFO) and ioctl (GET_DISK_INFO) and unfortunately they return the major and minor of the device and not the name of the device file. But you have to somehow map that to the

Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

2009-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 14:40 +0200 schrieb martin f krafft: also sprach Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de [2009.07.24.1410 +0200]: We currently use in grub-setup ioctl (GET_ARRAY_INFO) and ioctl (GET_DISK_INFO) and unfortunately they return the major and minor of the device and not the

Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

2009-08-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de [2009.08.04.1456 +0200]: The problem is that we currently create the filename of the device by using the major and minor Like this: if (major == SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR) sprintf (name, /dev/sd%c, 'a' + minor / 16); This just doestn't work if the

Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

2009-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 03.05.2009, 10:12 +0200 schrieb martin f krafft: also sprach martin f krafft madd...@debian.org [2009.05.02.1107 +0200]: However, trying to install to a system with RAID1 across two virtual disks, I run into two errors, depending on which approach I take: Those two

Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

2009-05-03 Thread martin f krafft
clone 526615 -1 retitle -1 improved error message if grub cannot be embedded severity -1 wishlist retitle 526615 should treat unknown block devices as plain block devices severity 526615 wishlist thanks also sprach martin f krafft madd...@debian.org [2009.05.02.1107 +0200]: However, trying to

Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

2009-05-02 Thread martin f krafft
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-16 Severity: normal I have kvm configured to make disks available as virtio-blk devices, and now I am trying to install grub2 onto them. This works on plain VMs: vera:~# ls -l /dev/vda brw-rw 1 root disk 254, 0 May 2 11:01 /dev/vda vera:~#