Bug#495909: extraneous error: "unsupported RAID level: 10"

[Robert Millan]

severity 495909 normal
reassign 495909 grub
forcemerge 495909 496035
thanks

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:57:06AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> piper:/boot% sudo update-grub
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> error: Unsupported RAID level: 10
> error: Unsupported RAID level: 10
> error: Unsupported RAID level: 10
> error: Unsupported RAID level: 10
> Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64
> Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
> 
> 
> Well, it never supported RAID, so why should it suddenly report an
> error? And if it now supports RAID, why not RAID 10?

Argueably, GRUB Legacy shouldn't report any of this.  They're real errors,
but only make sense for GRUB 2.  This stems from grub-probe being a bit
biased towards GRUB 2.

I think we could just fix it by sending its output to /dev/null.

(anyway, expect raid10 support to be included soon)

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