Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary: grub ignorant of RAID-1 Version: 0.91-2 (debian woody) Type: feature request
Message: Currently, GRUB does not deal with a mirrored file system very well. Under Linux, Grub should recognise that /dev/md0 or /dev/md/0 is a mirror device, and query /proc/mdstat to find out what the real devices are underneath, and duplicate its actions for both mirrors. Alternatively, this could be configured through device.map. Looking through stage1/stage1.S, I think it would do quite well in this configuration without much change. In the menu.lst, you could notify GRUB of the configuration of mirroring, so that it can try the second disk if the first one fails. Alternatively, when it is scanning disks it could note disks with type=fd (linux raid autodetect) and just DTRT. I think most of the changes are in the unix grub client though - making it not barf with `Cannot find BIOS disk for device /dev/md0'. At the moment device.map is not flexible enough, I want to be able to configure something like this: (hd0) /dev/hda (hd0) /dev/sda (hd0,0) /dev/md0 (hd1,0) /dev/md0 I switched back to LILO for RAID-1 root support, only to inconsistently hit LI 01 01 01 01 01 01... when I tried to reload a kernel ... the pain... This is the one feature that is holding me back from putting GRUB everywhere! ---- Please send followups to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
