From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LW5Kr-0003Rn-7z for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:48:17 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LW5Kp-0003Qw-5P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:48:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LW5Kn-0003QI-H0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:48:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48696 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LW5Kn-0003QB-9N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:48:13 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:61310) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LW5Km-0007u3-Nf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:48:13 -0500 Received: from [85.180.55.22] (e180055022.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.55.22]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML29c-1LW5Kj05Xv-00021D; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:48:11 +0100 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1234044437.4276.8.camel@radscorpion> References: <48EDBCEA.6020507@wpkg.org> <1223540903.4139.0.camel@fz.local> <1233476393.3427.1.camel@fz.local> <1234044437.4276.8.camel@radscorpion> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:48:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1234082893.3429.1.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+aSjrBOdQEBGhUf1D244vxLxUvbaBTJqvb9rd B7qrsnRt3qf81kEYZFZ3s5PgO93bipSRuWFyiHPQOhhoIocWZs vxNAA01r3IUB+8Zxu5pK+1CpGC+Qy02 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: what RAID levels does GRUB2 support? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:48:15 -0000 Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 23:07 +0100 schrieb Wojciech Pyczak: > > Yet another RAID related question, I decided to try out RAID partitions > (using grub svn versions), basically I've such disk layout: > > md0: (RAID10 on 2 of 3 disks - /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1) > md0p1 - ext2, /boot > md0p2 - reiserfs, / > md0p3 - LVM2 > > > Grub-mkconfig worked as expected detecting: > > menuentry "GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28.3" { > insmod raid mdraid > set root=(md0p1) > linux /vmlinux-2.6.28.3 root=/dev/md0p2 ro > } > > > However grub-install /dev/(md0 | /dev/md0p1 | /dev/sda | /dev/sdb) throw > some errors(every time the same): > > grub-probe: error: no mapping exists for `md0p1' > Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed. > Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly. > > I tried using --modules="raid mdraid" but it didn't help much: > > grub-probe: error: no mapping exists for `md0p1' > error: We don't support multiple metadata areas > Invalid device `md0'. > Try ``grub-setup --help'' for more information. > > > Error about multiple metadata is something which I reported here before > (related to LVM) but it doesn't really matter since grub isn't installed > at all (well, I suppose so at least). > > Is there any trick to make it work or is partitioned raid support still > work in progress ? > Then you used revision < 1973 /dev/mdNpN style devices are supported since 1937 -- Felix Zielcke