On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:35:02AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Is this an acceptable fix? > Though I have the feeling this isn't a proper one. > > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > > Von: Bob Gilligan <gilli...@vyatta.com> > > Reply-to: Bob Gilligan <gilli...@vyatta.com>, 503...@bugs.debian.org > > An: sub...@bugs.debian.org > > Betreff: Bug#503344: Grub-pc fails on IBM x3250 configured with RAID-1 > > Datum: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:19:59 -0700 > > > > Package: grub-pc > > Version: 1.96+20080724-10 > > > > After installing grub-pc on an IBM x3250 with two 160 GB drives, with > > the root filesystem configured using mdadm for RAID-1, grub fails to > > boot, printing: > > > > Welcome to GRUB! > > > > error: unknown device fd1 > > Entering rescue mode ... > > grub rescue>
ISTR we disabled floppy support completely in debian in order to avoid this kind of trouble (I would disable it in official GRUB as well, but I can already feel there'd be some opposition :-)). Anyway, my point is that floppies are too unreliable. We detect them when iterating even if they're not readable. Perhaps we could actually probe them for read during iteration to solve this. > > + grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE; /* Used as error flag */ > > device_name = grub_file_get_device_name (name); > > if (grub_errno) > > return 0; This looks like a hack. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
