Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

[Sam Morris]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, here are the results.
> > 
> > 'grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img ext2 pc gpt _chain' crashes
> > at the menu
> 
> But raid is missing here.  Does "ext2 pc gpt raid _chain" work?  (at least,
> to get to the rescue console)

Yes, this works fine too.

> There are two separate problems here.  I can't comment on the LBA addressing
> issue, but if we can isolate the partmap detection one, then at least we can
> "fix" [1] this (which is what affects the majority of users).
> 
> [1] With a kludge that loads "pc gpt" when partmap cannot be detected.  Not sure
>     if this is suitable for official grub, but at least we would enable it in
>     Debian.

Sounds good to me!

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