From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RwycX-0001xL-Ep for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:19:17 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwycM-0001vW-K5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:19:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwycG-0002G6-Md for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:19:06 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:29053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwycG-0002Fw-KS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:19:00 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=XsF4yC59 c=1 sm=0 a=/DbS/tiKggfTkRRHPZEB4g==:17 a=ODbK2BMGt0IA:10 a=LEE9ow5P1loA:10 a=S1A5HrydsesA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=bGC1a8iv4AcPdIcp0HMA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=/DbS/tiKggfTkRRHPZEB4g==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.78.168.186 Received: from [67.78.168.186] ([67.78.168.186:58778] helo=[10.1.1.230]) by cdptpa-oedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id E6/3B-04325-2F7393F4; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:18:59 +0000 Message-ID: <4F3937F2.3030204@ubuntu.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:18:58 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Bug#659460: grub-pc: grub-install can't install on raid0 device (grub-probe can't find /boot) References: <20120211101400.32649.13427.reportbug@debian> <4F3642FF.1080205@gmail.com> <4F364ABC.6050806@calvaedi.com> <4F364ED4.2000402@gmail.com> <4F3652A2.8040000@calvaedi.com> <4F365BF2.3090809@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F365BF2.3090809@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 75.180.132.120 Cc: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= , John Hughes , John Hughes , 659460@bugs.debian.org X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:19:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/11/2012 7:15 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Adding BIOS driver for this screws things up. And the scam is > adding this to mobo features as a "RAID" and an attempt to make > this pass as if it was a hardware RAID. GRUB currently considers > mdX as a non-available through BIOS unless user overrides it in > device.map, we need to add a logic to handle the fakeraid as a BIOS > disk. It's possible to add support for intel RAID but it will be > useless since the member disks aren't available through BIOS to > begin with. I started a cross mailing list discussion of this last year, and I think the conclusion was that grub needs to ask mdadm what the metadata format is, and if it is the intel format, assume the raid is bios accessible the way it currently does for dmraid. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPOTfxAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75giwIAIepAzVB43PV2Ix4i02cQie6 sy3MK9uqjHkLX75XPCDB68Tyfejb9KenBxEjJqZmVt3m9flK5dIbcLRe8baMvVuZ pu2uMZ9dLc+WVVrQ3Jwd5eJfy13wRgo5bKiBvgnUVta+6DKtFCR5en9DWzmgBjWg qF88ClnG7iNjZ4wpqMkcubcBA5/lGPP69Z7ohCtQ2a4vcmBWpmyPmu4dcnyaM8OY CviSULB/nCyMs9cCCYx8IPiOdsEiB1jGaxL8Dab7oJzNTN3PDb+7Z7rUJCKK5nxS L3SCQYPGe8zSun6GCCObMkZ0O9AFMRpXFnMSVLcFVoklXnEP4MUzPuAWH/oQBlY= =mFNd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----