From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq5lR-0000MP-Ui for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 07:09:21 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq5lQ-0000Ll-26 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 07:09:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq5lO-0000LZ-Kp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 07:09:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq5lO-0000LW-EV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 07:09:18 -0400 Received: from neonescio.viaisn.org ([82.94.249.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq5lN-0003ap-Vs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 07:09:18 -0400 Received: from dijkstra.dekkers.cx ([2001:960:7a0:0:213:d4ff:fe9c:2487] ident=Debian-exim) by neonescio.viaisn.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 CV=0) (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1Hq5kx-0004Jd-Sz; Mon, 21 May 2007 13:08:52 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq5kw-00060J-Ni; Mon, 21 May 2007 13:08:50 +0200 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:08:50 +0200 Message-ID: <877ir2v3gd.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: Sam Morris , 423022@bugs.debian.org In-Reply-To: <1179584038.4145.10.camel@xerces> References: <20070509151643.GB16077@aragorn> <1178725065.4102.65.camel@xerces> <20070509161344.GA25183@aragorn> <1179004601.3922.4.camel@xerces> <1179054146.4014.9.camel@xerces> <20070513164407.GA11143@aragorn> <20070518065137.GA2485@aragorn> <1179535793.4466.3.camel@xerces> <20070519093336.GA19265@aragorn> <1179575266.4466.5.camel@xerces> <20070519121051.GA7186@aragorn> <1179580232.4542.8.camel@xerces> <1179584038.4145.10.camel@xerces> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.0.95 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org, Thomas Stewart , Robert Millan Subject: Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID 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, 21 May 2007 11:09:20 -0000 At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > deferred until grub actually tries to read a block that is out of range, > as grub-legacy does The problem is that it actually tries to do that, because the RAID superblock is located at the end of the partition. > (even through it doesn't 'see' the RAID partition as > such, I can still boot from it without complaint). That's probably because you have RAID1. The only difference between a RAID and a non-RAID is that there is a RAID superblock at the end, you can just mount a RAID1 partition as normal. This is how grub legacy was always able to boot from RAID1 partitions. This won't work with RAID0 or RAID5 however. > I wonder if d-i warns the user that they may be creating an unbootable > system if the partition that contains /boot does not exist wholly within > the first 7.8 GiB/128 GiB/128 PiB (depending on the addressing mode in > use) of the disk? :) I think that 7.8GiB limit has been gone for a long time now, I don't think there will be a lot of installations on such machines. My guess is that the 128 GiB limit is still a problem. Jeroen Dekkers