Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)

[Michael Gilbert]

control: retitle -1 add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Gleb Golubitsky wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Friday, December 06, 2013 12:28:40 PM Colin Watson wrote:
>> Gleb, if you can still reproduce this, could you please run this command
>
> I recently reinstalled my Debian (moved i386 -> amd64) and the bug is not
> reproduced any more. Right before that i found out that 'delay' parameter
> helped me so i suppose the key of problem here is a long time needed by kernel
> (or somewhat else?) to detect my RAID.
>
> Dunno, maybe the bug should be closed as unreproducible.

This is an issue only with RAID arrays using a very old format, which
it looks like grub now no longer supports.  This, I think, can be
corrected by writing a news entry about that so users will see the
info during an upgrade.

Best wishes,
Mike