Bug#467501: cannot boot when /boot is in RAID

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:17:31AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > > > > > > > > I seem to have this problem too--however a detail that others have not
> > > > > > > > > mentioned is the error message printed before I am dropped to rescue
> > > > > > > > > mode:
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > >         error: Found two discs with the number 0?!?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Whoops, it's 'disks' not 'discs'. The string is from disk/raid.c line
> > > > > 448.
> > > > 
> > > > That's strange..  can you reproduce this error in grub-emu?  (you should
> > > > see it during its initialisation, when grub_init_all() is called)
> > > 
> > > There's no error with grub-emu -- I get straight to the menu
> > 
> > Does this help?
> 
> It says, "Found two disks with the number 0?!? (first hd1,2 then
> hd3,2)".
> 
> As for an update on the other parts of this bug: prefix and root are set
> correctly, so in order to boot I have only to enter 'insmod normal' and
> then 'normal'.

Sounds like GRUB being too conservative.  What happens if you comment out the
offending lines?  (BOTH "grub_error()" and "return 0").

-- 
Robert Millan

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