Re: GRUB2, GPT, mdadm & LVM

[Sander Smeenk]

Quoting Andrey Borzenkov (address@hidden):

> > Unfortunately, adding biosdisk to the list doesn't give me a working
> > GRUB either. Device (md/0) shows but (lvm/fdi-host_root) doesn't.
> Could you test current trunk? There were some changes in how grub scans
> for multilayer devices; it may have fixed it.

Tried that.

I had to patch util/getroot.c since the 'vgs' tool called by grub-probe
now returns '  /dev/md0  ' and util/getroot.c only stripped the
preceeding spaces.

--- getroot.c.orig  2013-07-19 11:20:26.129871738 +0200
+++ getroot.c   2013-07-19 11:04:05.996377299 +0200
@@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@
       for (ptr = buf; ptr < buf + 2 && *ptr == ' '; ptr++);
       if (*ptr == '\0')
    continue;
-      *(ptr + strlen (ptr) - 1) = '\0';
+      *(ptr + strlen (ptr) - 3) = '\0';
       grub_util_pull_device (ptr);
     }

The resulting grub installs fine but doesn't boot either, same symptoms.
Please see the reply to your other message in this thread.

-Sndr.
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