Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:35:32PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Robert Millan: > > > Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from > > /boot on LVM (we had reports about that). > > Ah, that's possibly what your request is about that I still have > standing out.

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Robert Millan: > Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from > /boot on LVM (we had reports about that). Ah, that's possibly what your request is about that I still have standing out. I don't think I've ever installed Debian using d-i, you've got much more uptime

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:43:38PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Any objection if I check that in ? ChangeLog: > > Patch from Jeroen Dekkers. > * disk/raid.c (grub_raid_scan_device): Reset `grub_errno' on disk > failure, since succesfuly reading all array members might not be

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-06 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 07 February 2008 00:19, Sam Morris wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:49:24 +, Sam Morris wrote: > > Then the screen blanks, and the next thing printed is: > > > > Welcome to GRUB! > > > > Entering into rescue mode... > > grub rescue> > > > > Whereupon I can enter 'insmod normal' an

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-06 Thread Sam Morris
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:49:24 +, Sam Morris wrote: > Then the screen blanks, and the next thing printed is: > > Welcome to GRUB! > > Entering into rescue mode... > grub rescue> > > Whereupon I can enter 'insmod normal' and then 'normal' to get to the > regular boot menu. I modified the g

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-05 Thread Sam Morris
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:35:19 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:32:46AM +, Sam Morris wrote: >> >> Version 1.96+20080203-1 behaves differently; I am simply dropped to the >> rescue shell, and I can't load any modules (because root is set to >> (hd1,2) which does not show

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:44:38AM +, Sam Morris wrote: > > Ouch... I have never tried /boot on LVM myself (since grub legacy can't > handle it). However /boot on RAID works fine, I suggest you try that > instead. Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:32:46AM +, Sam Morris wrote: > > Version 1.96+20080203-1 behaves differently; I am simply dropped to the > rescue shell, and I can't load any modules (because root is set to > (hd1,2) which does not show up when I run 'ls'). I guessed that this is > because 'pc' i

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-04 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:43:38 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> Debian's post-install script has actually been written to substitute >> 'pc gpt' if the partmap probing fails, > > Actually, this was reverted a while ago. > >> manually. However, I now hit the second problem: the menu that grub >> prese

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-04 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:43:38 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:36:45PM +, Sam Morris wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> A while ago, I tried grub2 on my Debian system, which has my root >> filesystem on a Linux software RAID-1 array. I ran into some problems, >> and while they we

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:36:45PM +, Sam Morris wrote: > Hi there, > > A while ago, I tried grub2 on my Debian system, which has my root > filesystem on a Linux software RAID-1 array. I ran into some problems, > and while they were raised here, nothing really came of them. Robert > Millan sug