Bug#526615: fails to install to RAID across virtual (kvm/virtio) disks

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> [2009.08.04.1456 +0200]:
> The problem is that we currently create the filename of the device by
> using the major and minor
> Like this:
> 
> if (major == SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR)
>     sprintf (name, "/dev/sd%c", 'a' + minor / 16);
> 
> This just doestn't work if the major is for local use according to the
> kernel docs.
> We could make 254 map to /dev/vda but maybe it's wrong then for someone
> else.
> Unfortunately I don't know why we have 2 different methods of dealing
> with RAID disks.
> The ioctl method in grub-setup and the method to just read the md
> superblock on all disks and add them to a list in grub-probe.

Thanks for the explanation. This is indeed a bit ugly. ;)

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