Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:32:46AM +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> 
> Version 1.96+20080203-1 behaves differently; I am simply dropped to the 
> rescue shell, and I can't load any modules (because root is set to 
> (hd1,2) which does not show up when I run 'ls'). I guessed that this is 
> because 'pc' is not in the list of modules included when grub-install 
> creates core.img.

Did you make sure 'pc' is loaded before 'raid' ?  This was required, at least
for LVM.

> If I add 'pc' to core.img then things are much healthier: I am still 
> dropped into the rescue shell, but I can load the 'normal' module, issue 
> the 'normal' command and then I get the (pretty!) menu and am able to 
> boot normally. I'm still not sure why I'm dropped into the rescue shell 
> in the first place, however. There's a flash of text before the prompt 
> appears, but the screen is cleared much to fast to read any of it.

Please can you take a picture of what you see right after the text is
cleared?

> ISTR that when I tried Jeroen Dekkers' patch before, I was no longer 
> booted into the rescue shell; but I can't remember (and I don't 
> understand why, if I was kicked into the rescue shell becuase grub tried 
> to read past the 'end' of my disk, why I can immediatly issue the 
> 'normal' command to go to the menu and have everything working).

Sounds strange, yes.  I suggest we try to fix the clearing error that
prevents you from reading that text, then see if that helps us make progress.

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Robert Millan

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