Bug#595071: grub2: doesn't reckognize partioned mdraid disks

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

tag 595071 fixed-upstream
thanks

Cleaned up version of patches applied upstream.
On 31.08.2010 22:20, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.98+20100804-4
> Severity: important
>
> Currently grub2 doesn't reckognize a system that boots from
> a partitionable mdraid disk, as I have. So the upgrade I did
> from lenny/grub-legacy to squeeze/grub2 failed.
>
> The main block device is called /dev/md_d0 and the partitions
> are md_d0p1, md_d0p2 etc.
>
> It turns out that grub2 does have all the code to make this work,
> but it looks like it hasn't been tested much and so regressed.
>
> It needs 2 fixes for it to work, attached as patches.
>
> 1. grub2-md_d0-osdev.patch
>    A problem description and this patch (for a slightly earlier
>    grub version) can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29903
>    (Original author as in the bugreport)
>
> 2. grub2-md_d0-grubdev.patch
>    When grub gets the real mdraid name from "mdadm", the partition
>    information is lost. This patch adds it back.
>    (Author is me)
>
> With these fixes applied I can grub-install /dev/md_d0 and
> have a booting system.
>
> Mike.
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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