gpt disk label and /boot

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Wed Mar 18 20:38:11 CET 2009


>
>> Hmm, do you have any idea whether the version of grub that you are using has
>> proper support for RAID devices? setup-storage does some hackery in that it sets
>> BOOT_DEVICE to the actual devices that make up the RAID device because earlier
>> versions of grub had no idea about RAID and LVM. I think, newer versions should
>> support it properly, but that will then depend on the version of grub you are
>> acutally using, meaning that we can either modify setup-storage to set
>> BOOT_DEVICE to /dev/md0 or hack the script to call device2grub for each device
>> (sda, sdb).
>>   
> i use grub_pc so it is grub2 ( 1.96) it support lvm/raid without any  
> problem.
>
>
> ii  grub-pc                                                  
> 1.96+20080724-16     GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS
>

Ok; it'll take me a few days to come up with a better solution (I don't think we
can yet fully switch to grub-pc). Could you, in the meantime, just put some hack
into your scripts to set BOOT_DEVICE to /dev/md0 to see which further errors we
need to get fixed?

Thanks,
Michael

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