Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

[Sam Morris]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 14:10 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:47:46PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can you try passing these to grub-install instead of modifiing the source?
> > > 
> > > Like: grub-install --modules="pc gpt"
> > 
> > Ok, I'll try that... would grub-mkimage not throw an error in that case
> > though?
> 
> It shouldn't.
> 
> > BTW, where does 'gpt' come into this at all... do I not need 'pc' and
> > 'raid'?
> 
> Yes, but we need a solution that works for gpt users as well.

Ok, here are the results.

'grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img ext2 pc gpt _chain' crashes
at the menu

'grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img ext2 pc raid _chain' dumps me
to the rescue console.

I wonder if I am hitting the rescue console because of the "out of disk"
error that I see when inserting the 'raid' module by hand? The
partitions in my raid array are 300 GiB, which is larger than the 128
GiB limit imposed by LBA-28 addressing.

If this is the case then I guess the error is really my fault and I
should fix it by creating a separate partition at the start of the disk
for /boot. However, the code that brings me to the rescue console
doesn't actually print any errors, it just dumps me there, so I may just
be barking up the wrong tree. :)

-- 
Sam Morris
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