Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:30:16PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > but we need support in grub/grub-installer for things to actually work.
> > 
> > Please get it fixed in GRUB 2 first;  then we could consider backporting.
> Oh c'mon. The bug has been sitting around in the BTS for half a year now
> without a comment and that's the best we can make out of it? I'd be
> happy to forward port things to grub2 but I'd really like to have
> this working in grub first, since this is what d-i uses at this point
> and once we can bootstrap out of lenny switching back between grub2 and
> grub for testing is much easier.

D-I uses both in fact.  GRUB Legacy for DOS labels and GRUB 2 for GPT.  I
don't see it as a problem that GRUB 2 is used when this feature is chosen.

Please understand that in practice there's no upstream for GRUB Legacy, and
we don't want to act as upstream and add even more features that won't be
merged (we did that way too much, you can see for yourself).  Besides, we're
actively working to replace it completely.

For GRUB 2, you can get this directly in upstream.  I recommend you send it to
grub-devel at gnu.org (feel free to put me on CC if you want).  In long-term this
is the best solution for supporting multipath.

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Robert Millan

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