Bug#540549: Apply from Felix Zielcke fixed dmraid issue for me

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 23.08.2009, 12:31 +0200 schrieb Raphael Bossek:
> 
> I installed a SoftRAID for my AMD710 chipset. It will be setup
> as /dev/mapper/pdc_fcgchefh and run into the same problem with GRUB2
> as described here.
> 
> I've found a patch from Felix Zielcke at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-07/msg00099.html and
> applied it to 1.96+20090808-1 successfully.
> 
> The setup of GRUB2 worked fine for me. I've attached the patch to this
> e-mail for sure. I cound not find the patch in the official SVN
> directory but maybe Felix did not applied it and waiting for more
> feedback.


It isn't.
The dmraid devices revealed a problem with the way grub-probe maps Linux
devices to GRUB devices, which doestn't work with device mapper devices
like for dmraid and multipath.
That issue is discussed in this topic upstream:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-07/msg00509.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-08/msg00065.html

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Felix Zielcke
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