From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Support for RAID in grub-setup
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:20:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607280020.42679.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slkr2kgs.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org>
On Monday 24 July 2006 15:36, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> I'm a bit behind the schedule I created for SoC (I had some unplanned
> things happening the last 2 weeks), but I've just committed the RAID
> support for grub-setup and I'm going to work on LVM support very soon.
Great.
> Grub-setup will ask Linux for the members of the RAID array that is
> given as destination device. It will then install on the MBRs of those
> devices and embed core.img after MBR. If it can't embed the core image
> it will fail, I'm not sure whether we should support reading core.img
> from a RAID array...
Personally, I like to see that every part can be read from a RAID device, but
maybe not so important in reality....
> I let grub-setup put the RAID device directly into the prefix and put
> -2 in grub_install_dos_part. I've modified make_install_device() in
> init.c to leave the prefix alone when grub_install_dos_part is -2.
So, if my understanding is correct, core.img is read from a single disk, but
the rest is handled in a RAID device, right?
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-27 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-24 13:36 Support for RAID in grub-setup Jeroen Dekkers
2006-07-27 22:20 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-07-27 23:13 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2006-07-29 11:21 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-07-31 22:16 ` Jeroen Dekkers
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