Bug#442382: Can't boot from multipath

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 17:05:06 UTC 2010


On 03/28/2010 03:50 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> I just tried your fix from 1.97+experimental.20091127-1 and it doesn't
> work. I'm currently chainloading from grub-legacy into grub2. I see:
>
> Welcome to GRUB!
>
> Error no such partition.
> Entering rescue mode...
> grub rescue>
>
>   
Reading current code I see that this problem is probably fixed as long
as multipath devices are named as dev/mapper/mpath-*. If it's not the
attached patch should fix it for good independently of device name. I
have no multipath system to test though
> The auto generatd grub.cfg is attched.
>
> /dev/mapper/mpath0 is the multipath device. It has two partitions:
> 	/dev/mapper/mpath0-part1 - boot device
> 	/dev/mapper/mpath0-part2 - VG mp1 
> The volume group mp1 contains the LV mp1-root - the actual "/"-device.
> This is the standard partitioning when using root on LVM on multipath in
> d-i.
> Cheers,
>  -- Guido
>   
>
>
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-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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