Bug#264262: grub: update-grub for RAID devices

Robert Millan Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>, 264262@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:39:16 +0200


On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:23:20PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Jason Thomas <jason@debian.org> [2004-08-09 09:26]:
> > > I boot my Debian system from a RAID1 device. It would be nice if
> > > update-grub could write more than one root devices (e.g.
> > > 
> > > # groot=(hd0,0) (hd1,0))
> 
> Ideally, you'd just tell grub md0 and it would find out which real
> devices make up the md device (e.g. by looking at /proc/mdstat).
> AFAIK, lilo supports this.

Yep, that's a good point.  I considered this when adding the first patch for
RAID support, but I haven't had time to do it myself.

Any takers?

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