From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HpLHo-0003rg-EV for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 05:31:40 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpLHm-0003r0-Tv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 05:31:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpLHm-0003qe-4M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 05:31:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpLHl-0003qa-U4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 05:31:37 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpLHl-0001HN-He for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 05:31:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HpLHh-00013e-WF; Sat, 19 May 2007 11:31:34 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HpLJg-00052X-V6; Sat, 19 May 2007 11:33:37 +0200 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:33:36 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: Sam Morris Message-ID: <20070519093336.GA19265@aragorn> References: <20070509135853.GA31878@aragorn> <1178719368.4102.48.camel@xerces> <20070509151643.GB16077@aragorn> <1178725065.4102.65.camel@xerces> <20070509161344.GA25183@aragorn> <1179004601.3922.4.camel@xerces> <1179054146.4014.9.camel@xerces> <20070513164407.GA11143@aragorn> <20070518065137.GA2485@aragorn> <1179535793.4466.3.camel@xerces> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1179535793.4466.3.camel@xerces> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org, 423022@bugs.debian.org, Thomas Stewart Subject: Re: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 09:31:39 -0000 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 Morris wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > > I'm forwarding you a bug report from Debian. It seems that the grub-probe > > > > > > -t partmap feature I just added doesn't play nice with RAID. Unfortunately, > > > > > > I have no idea how software RAID is implemented. Is it okay to just exit > > > > > > succesfuly and install core.img without any partmap module? > > > > > > ... so apparently it isn't. We still need to detect this somehow, or maybe we > > > could just print "pc gpt".. anyone can cast some light on this? > > > > How about this as temporary solution? It's ugly, but it's not worse than what > > we had before. > > I've now tested hardcoding the modules to 'pc gpt'. I suspect some part of GRUB might be thinking you talk about a single module named 'pc gpt' (which would be found in '/boot/grub/pc gpt.mod'). Can you try passing these to grub-install instead of modifiing the source? Like: grub-install --modules="pc gpt" -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.