Bug#590231: Discarding improperly nested partition?

[Harald Dunkel]

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Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100722-1

At upgrade time I got plenty of lines about

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/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd3,msdos2,msdos4).
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The partition table of hd3 is fine, of course:

# grep hd3 /boot/grub/device.map
(hd3)   /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FALS-00J7B1_WD-WMATV2542616
# parted /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FALS-00J7B1_WD-WMATV2542616 unit s print
Model: ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start      End          Size         Type     File system  Flags
 1      63s        67119569s    67119507s    primary  reiserfs     boot
 2      67119570s  1953520064s  1886400495s  primary               raid

sdb (the other half of the RAID0) has exactly the same layout, but
grub doesn't complain about any other disk than hd3.


Regards

Harri
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