Am Samstag, den 25.07.2009, 18:45 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > 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 :-)).
Only for util/hostdisk.c > 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. > r2444 should fix this. I just check now if it returns 0 and not for grub_errno. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
