Re: patch for partmap probing on RAID/LVM

[Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:00 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:37:02 +1200, Centurion Computer Technology (2005)
> Ltd wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 03:49 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> >> Here's the beginning of a patch for grub-probe itself to make it handle
> >> RAID/LVM more intelligently. This will work for the most common
> >> use-cases; the comments describe an idea to make the probing process
> >> recursive to handle more interesting situations such as LVM-on-RAID.
> > 
> > I assume this isn't complete or working yet.
> 
> Well, it works well enough for me at the moment, but it's not complete. 
> _How_ complete it will get depends on how thoroughly you want grub to 
> search for possible partition maps, lvm and raid layouts, etc...

I patched built and installed the debian package however I still
couldn't get it to detect the raided disks.  Are there other files that
need to be patched as well??



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