Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 Problems with grub upgrades getting out of step on a RAID configuration
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: >On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:40:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Right, you have two disks on this system and you're only installing GRUB >> to the second one. There's probably a vestige of GRUB on the other disk >> which happened to be compatible with the modules from 2.00-22 but not >> the modules from the new version. I recommend running: >> >> sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc >> >> Step through without changing anything until you get to the "GRUB >> install devices:" question, and then select the master boot records of >> both your hard disks, rather than just one of them. That should fix it. > >I've recently been bitten by this: after I installed a new SSH in my >laptop, grub stopped upgrading itself correctly. It's fixed now, >finally, thanks to your message here. > >The take away message for me is that if I change or add a hard disk to >my system, I need to remember to run "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc". From my >point of view, the most obvious way I had to learn about this was to >wait until my system became unbootable, rescue it, then find your >message when looking for what happened. > >Could grub's machinery could store somewhere the output of something >like this: > > ls /dev/disk/by-id/ | grep ^ata | grep -v -- -part > >and print at least a big warning during upgrades if it sees that it has >changed? Hi Enrico, That looks like a generally useful thing to have, yes, but I don't think it's RC to *not* have it. Downgrading and retitling appropriately. I'll see what I can do to add support for something like that soon. In a related(ish) sense, we could do with some similar extra work to make EFI systems and RAID play nicely too... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
