Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Mon Mar 3 14:25:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:07:59PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> > first of all, I fully understand your point regarding grub legacy
> > maintenance. But let me explain a bit...
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Failing that, what you're essentially requesting is that we take care of
> > > upstream maintainance for additional functionality _and_ add one more stopper
> > > for migrating to GRUB 2 in the future.
> > Pleae have a look at the patch. It's fairly unintrusive and the
> > grub-install part has been in this form or another in other distros
> > since ages.
> 
> If the patch is so simple, what is the problem with updating it for GRUB 2?

Btw, now that I check, this patch won't apply against grub 0.97-33.  The
convert() function has been reimplemented.

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Robert Millan

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