From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JOZKG-0005H5-EN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:08:04 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOZKE-0005FM-Qa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:08:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOZKC-0005Bq-J3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:08:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOZKC-0005Bi-GB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:08:00 -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 1JOZK4-0003AB-NX; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:07:52 -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 1JOZJm-0005bu-3u; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:07:37 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JOZHz-0005L7-Pa; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:05:43 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:05:43 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Message-ID: <20080211140543.GA20492@thorin> References: <20080206211840.GA13360@thorin> <20080206231401.GA17655@thorin> <20080208145236.GA19517@thorin> <1202733801.24963.11.camel@peder.flower> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1202733801.24963.11.camel@peder.flower> 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. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org, Sam Morris , Thomas Wendt Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for partmap detection on RAID/LVM 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: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:08:03 -0000 On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:43:21PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Robert Millan writes: > > > This is only known to work on proof-of-concept test systems. *Please* anyone > > who was affected on real, production systems, test it (against latest CVS) and > > send feedback. The problem was that: > > > > grub-probe -t partmap /some_path > > > > is unable to detect the partition map when /some_path was part of some LVM or > > RAID abstraction. > > Yes, works fine for me. > > 13:41:19 janneke@peder:~/vc/grub2 > $ /home/janneke/pkg/grub2/sbin/grub-probe -t abstraction /boot > lvm > 13:41:23 janneke@peder:~/vc/grub2 > $ /home/janneke/pkg/grub2/sbin/grub-probe -t partmap /boot > grub-probe: error: unknown device > [1]13:41:33 janneke@peder:~/vc/grub2 > $ sudo /home/janneke/pkg/grub2/sbin/grub-probe -t partmap /boot > pc But the first time it reports unknown device? What did you change? -- 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 /.)