Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:48:37PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:24:58PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:
> > While I see that the patch is rather trivial, I share same feeling of
> > Robert. Let me explain it a bit more...
> I see Roberts point completeley and I imagine it to be a pita moving all
> the dos labled "mess" over to grub2. The other side is that moving to
> multipath d-i to grub2 will be heaps easier once we have an installer
> that runs preseeded the whole way.

You noticed that using GRUB 2 for multipath is a two-line change in
grub-installer, right?  See how it is done for gpt.

> We will need the same hackery as for
> sataraid and since I have working code for grub I'd like to finish of
> this first bevore we move to grub2, parted1.8, ... So grub would be an
> interim solution anyway, but one that helps.

Unlike Parted 1.8, GRUB 2 is already in the archive, and already interacts
with the installer.  OTOH, I think the sataraid hackery is completely in the
wrong place (although I can understand why they did it); please don't use it
as reference.

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Robert Millan

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