Bug#772795: grub installation fails on a fakeraid/sataraid/dmraid system

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Sun Aug 16 06:45:37 UTC 2015


Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 12:49 +0530 schrieb Pirate Praveen:
> package: grub-pc
> version: 1.99-27+deb7u2
> severity: critical
> 
> I had to spend a lot of time researching on the internet to finally 
> find
> this https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid and install 
> grub
> manually. This was wheezy 7.7.0 DVD 1.
> 
> I don't know if debian installer can detect a sataraid system and 
> load
> dm-raid module manually (I'll open another bug for that). But grub
> installation should not fail when dmraid=true.
> 
> Instead of suggesting to install on /dev/mapper grub should choose 
> the
> correct devise like /dev/mapper/isw_bdfjhfbiei_Volume1 when 
> dmraid=true
> is present in the kernel command line.
> 
> Server model is Dell PowerEdge T20 and SATA controller is Intel C226
> chipset.
> 
Is this still a problem with jessie or got it solved?



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