Hi, I'm forwarding you a bug report from Debian. It seems that the grub-probe -t partmap feature I just added doesn't play nice with RAID. Unfortunately, I have no idea how software RAID is implemented. Is it okay to just exit succesfuly and install core.img without any partmap module?
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:37:45PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 17:16 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:02:48PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > > > > > Yes, "grub-probe: error: Cannot detect partition map for md0". The > > > message doesn't appear when grub-pc's postinst is run, however. Note to GRUB maintainers: earlier this caused a segfault. I fixed it in CVS to print that error instead. > > > > Also, what is the result of "parted /dev/md0 print" ? > > > > > > Disk /dev/md0: 300GB > > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > > > Partition Table: loop > > ^^^^ > > This means there's indeed no partition table, just a filesystem. > > > > Did you install Debian on purpose without creating any partition table, or > > is > > this just the normal result when using software RAID? What does parted say > > about your real disk(s)? > > Interesting. This system has been installed for quite a few years; I > moved it to raid1 by hand. > > The system has several disks; md0 consists of hdb2 and hdg2. Here's what > parted says about hdb: > > Disk /dev/hdb: 300GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 543MB 543MB primary > 2 543MB 300GB 300GB primary ext3 raid > > When you say there is no partition table, I guess you mean inside md0 > itself? AFAIR, the array was created before partitionable md arrays were > added to Linux... or at least before mdadm had the option to create > them. > > I just ran this on a system that uses RAID which I created with the etch > installer: > > Disk /dev/md8: 57.5MB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: loop > > Number Start End Size File system Flags > 1 0.00kB 57.5MB 57.5MB ext3 > > Which appears to confirm my belief that partitionable arrays are unusual > rather than the default. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
