Re: [dm-devel] Re: grub 0.96 bug

2005-03-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Wilfried Weissmann wrote: It must be severely broken; since if it just sticked to writing to the device I pointed it at (hpt37x_ehgjaggaf) which is a RAID0 virtual disk / whatever, it should never be able to overwrite metadata out on the physical disk. HPT desided to make the metadata

Re: [dm-devel] Re: grub 0.96 bug

2005-03-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Thanks for the explanation! There should be an option in the GRUB configuration to do this, so that the RAID won't get overwritten the next time I do a grub-install, I think. That would make my life a lot easier! On the other hand, the most straight forward thing to do would be to move the

Re: [dm-devel] Re: grub 0.96 bug

2005-03-22 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
Molle Bestefich wrote: That would make my life a lot easier! On the other hand, the most straight forward thing to do would be to move the stage 1.5 to another default sector. So you can not forget to set any option that ruins your array if missing. Also there is no need to add some autodetection

Re: [dm-devel] Re: grub 0.96 bug

2005-03-21 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
Chris Nicola wrote: Yes I am having the exact same problem. I am actually just going to try and lower version of grub for now but I will try this patch if that still happens. Just did this: == grub device (hd0) /dev/mapper/hpt37x_ehgjaggaf grub root (hd0,5)/boot Filesystem type is