Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:44:07PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:02:26PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 22:16 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > I'm forwarding you a bug report from Debian.  It seems that the grub-probe
> > > > -t partmap feature I just added doesn't play nice with RAID.  Unfortunately,
> > > > I have no idea how software RAID is implemented.  Is it okay to just exit
> > > > succesfuly and install core.img without any partmap module?
> 
> ... so apparently it isn't.  We still need to detect this somehow, or maybe we
> could just print "pc gpt".. anyone can cast some light on this?

How about this as temporary solution?  It's ugly, but it's not worse than what
we had before.

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