Bug#500157: grub-common: no such disk after un- and replugging disk belonging to RAID1 array

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Felix,


thanks for your response.


Am Freitag, den 26.09.2008, 18:56 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> Am Donnerstag, den 25.09.2008, 18:34 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> > wanting to reinstall something I unplugged one of the two disks in the
> > RAID1 array as a backup. Anyway I just accessed (cryptsetup luksOpen the
> > md1 “partition”)  the still connected disk and did not write anything
> > onto it.
> > 
> > After that a connected the other disk and got
> > 
> > Welcome to GRUB !
> > 
> > Error: no such disk
> > Entering rescue mode...
> > grub rescue>
> > 
> > I could not find anything regarding to grub rescue on the net. ls does
> > show (md0) (md0) (hd0) (hd1) (hd0,0) and so on.
> > 
> > The strange thing is if I just leave either one of the two drives
> > connected GRUB is showing up as it used to.
> > 
> > 
> > Do you have any idea what caused this and how this can be fixed?
> > 
> Did you do grub-install with ..24-10 or at least ..24-9?
> In 24-9 there was a little RAID fix from me included.
> People do forget that they have to really update grub by hand.
> Else I don't have yet a clue for this.

I think I installed the RAID system over a year ago. I do not know if
grub-install is executed after each upgrade. I will try to do it
tomorrow.


Thanks,

Paul
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