Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:13:39 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: >> If this is the case, it would be nice if the raid module would only >> throw a warning if some of the component devices could not be added to >> a RAID1 array. > > I think the handling of errors/warnings in GRUB2 can probably be > improv

Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Mon, 21 May 2007 13:23:38 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:08 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, > > Sam Morris wrote: > > > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > > > deferred until grub actually tries to read

Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:08 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, > Sam Morris wrote: > > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > > deferred until grub actually tries to read a block that is out of range, > > as grub-legacy does > > The pro

Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > deferred until grub actually tries to read a block that is out of range, > as grub-legacy does The problem is that it actually tries to do that, because the RAID superblock

Re: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > Ok, here are the results. > > 'grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img ext2 pc gpt _chain' crashes > at the menu But raid is missing here. Does "ext2 pc gpt raid _chain" work? (at least, to get to the rescue console) > I wonder

Re: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:47:46PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > > > Can you try passing these to grub-install instead of modifiing the source? > > > > Like: grub-install --modules="pc gpt" > > Ok, I'll try that... would grub-mkimage not throw an error in that case > though? It shouldn't. > BTW

Re: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:49:53AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:44:07PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:02:26PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 22:16 +0100, Sam M