Bug#423022: problems detecting partition map on software RAID

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Tue May 29 13:41:25 UTC 2007


retitle 423022 raid module not loaded although needed
tags 423022 upstream
tags 423022 - patch
thanks

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:53:47PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> reopen 423022
> thanks
> 
> Hm, this isn't quite fixed yet... users of software RAID still won't be
> able to boot up, as the generated core.img will not contain the 'raid'
> module.

That's a separate bug.  The patch I added to Debian workarounds detection of
partition map module, not raid.  As for the latter, see below..

> In fact, I get the error message 'you need to load the kernel first'
> which doesn't make much sense... I would have expected something more
> along the lines of 'No such device: (md0)'.
> 
> Anyway, here's what I came up with for grub-install. It's ugly, but
> that's shell scripting for you. ;)
> 
> [...]

Please get this in upstream first.  I don't want to add such divergence in
the package unless it's accepted in upstream.

As for the upstream side, I can't commit it there as I don't have any
expertise on RAID issues.  Hopefuly Jeroen will look at it (and perhaps
the solution he finds adequate is completely different -e.g. in the C
part of the program).

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