From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "K. Posern" Subject: Re: getting a linux boot loader (preferably grub) installed on an intel imsm raid Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:44:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4C703AB5.5040605@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms070705040004070801060805" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: gabe peters Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms070705040004070801060805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Gabe, On 21/08/10 03:53, gabe peters wrote: > Any insight will be welcome, I suppose this message amounts to nothing= > more than a simple "me, too!" though! I got it working! Thanks to the *great* support of phcoder from the=20 grub2 community! He developed a patch that allows the user a sane way to override=20 auto-detection mechanisms by supplying right device.map. It should get=20 merged to bzr in the next couple of days :) (it is not yet ideally=20 coded, but works :) --> Basically allowing me to use /dev/md126 (the imsm Volume) as a grub=20 device, even though grub can't assemble it --> hence to use the int13=20 OROM assembled version of the raid-0 :) If you want to give it a try: # http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.en.html bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub # Apply this patch: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=3Dtgfqp9Hn # e.g. download it to file "phcoder.patch" # and run cat phcoder.patch|patch -p 0 in the "grub" directory that = you received by the bzr command # I think without any parameters it should be fine: ./configure make # this command triggered for me that /boot/grub got populated: # for me /dev/mdYOURVOLUME was /dev/md126 (the imsm Volume) ./grub-probe /dev/mdYOURVOLUME # make sure that /boot/grub/device.map contains: (hd0) /dev/mdYOURVOLUME ./grub-probe /dev/mdYOURVOLUME -v ./grub-probe -t partmap /boot -v # until know we changed NOTHING... # ... so if you can also do this: ./grub-install /dev/mdYOURVOLUME reboot Hope this helps you as well. 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