Bug#659460: grub-pc: grub-install can't install on raid0 device (grub-probe can't find /boot)

[Phillip Susi]

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On 2/11/2012 7:15 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Adding BIOS driver for this screws things up. And the scam is
> adding this to mobo features as a "RAID" and an attempt to make
> this pass as if it was a hardware RAID. GRUB currently considers
> mdX as a non-available through BIOS unless user overrides it in
> device.map, we need to add a logic to handle the fakeraid as a BIOS
> disk. It's possible to add support for intel RAID but it will be
> useless since the member disks aren't available through BIOS to
> begin with.

I started a cross mailing list discussion of this last year, and I
think the conclusion was that grub needs to ask mdadm what the
metadata format is, and if it is the intel format, assume the raid is
bios accessible the way it currently does for dmraid.

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