From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JMKI2-0007pv-85 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:40:30 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMKHz-0007oV-Vb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:40:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMKHx-0007nL-Kf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:40:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMKHw-0007n3-Rs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:40:25 -0500 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 1JMKHw-0006x3-Ez for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:40:24 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JMKHv-0007oD-BY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:40:23 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JMKGQ-000832-GM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:38:50 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:38:50 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080205093850.GB30578@thorin> References: <1202161005.7223.38.camel@xerces> <20080204224338.GC28299@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices 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: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:40:28 -0000 On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:44:38AM +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > > Ouch... I have never tried /boot on LVM myself (since grub legacy can't > handle it). However /boot on RAID works fine, I suggest you try that > instead. Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from /boot on LVM (we had reports about that). > It's pretty simple, assuming you are using d-i. When partitioning, > configure two disks with identical partition layouts (a single partition > on each is sufficient). Then, tell partman that you want to use them as > 'physical volumes for RAID'. A new option should appear, 'configure > RAID' (or something similar). Here you can create a RAID1 array using > both the partitions, which you can use as an ext3 filesystem, mounted > at /. Thank you. I'll try this as soon I get a free minute. > >> Jeroen Dekkers previously suggested a patch to suppress the 'out of > >> disk' error, at > >> but no > >> one ever committed it. > > > > Ah, I see. The patch looks correct to me; only the description you > > gave before isn't. > > Hmm, I don't understand the difference between your changelog entry and > my description, but ok. :) You said unsetting grub_errno ensured the iteration is not stopped, but grub_errno has no effect on GRUB iterators, only the return value does. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)