Bug#612692: grub-setup segfaults when presented with partitioned raid

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Thu Feb 10 00:35:06 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:33:54PM -0800, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> Anyhow, it appears that device.map isn't supposed to be allowed to
> contain md devices anymore... judging by the changelog...
> 
> grub2 (1.99~20101210-2) experimental; urgency=low
> 
>   * Automatically remove MD devices from device.map on upgrade, since the
>     BIOS cannot read from these and including them in device.map will break
>     GRUB's ability to read from such devices (LP: #690030).
> 
> ...but that didn't happen when I upgraded to this version from
> 1.98+20100804-14 so it looks like something is broken there.  (I still
> had nothing but (hd0) /dev/md/d0 in my map.)  Once I fixed up my
> device.map manually, grub-setup works OK (I use msdos partitions on d0,
> which probably explains why I don't see bug 612518).

The automatic removal only covered devices that were automatically
added; I felt doing more than that was risky.  /dev/md/d0 doesn't sound
like an entry we'd have added automatically.  Did you enter that
yourself at some point in the past, or am I missing something?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]





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