Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

[Otavio Salvador]

Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:

>> > 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.
> Cheers,

Hello Guido,

While I see that the patch is rather trivial, I share same feeling of
Robert. Let me explain it a bit more...

We're in the way for moving to grub2 and it's a very demanding
task. Adding new features to grub-legacy just makes this worse.

My idea here is that we put this in grub2 and make d-i to use grub2
when multipath is being use. This is already done for gpt so it's only
less thing to worry when moving lenny to it.

What do you think?

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