Control: retitle -1 [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken) Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 unreproducible
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 01:00:10PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > control: retitle -1 add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Gleb Golubitsky wrote: > > On Friday, December 06, 2013 12:28:40 PM Colin Watson wrote: > >> Gleb, if you can still reproduce this, could you please run this command > > > > I recently reinstalled my Debian (moved i386 -> amd64) and the bug is not > > reproduced any more. Right before that i found out that 'delay' parameter > > helped me so i suppose the key of problem here is a long time needed by > > kernel > > (or somewhat else?) to detect my RAID. > > > > Dunno, maybe the bug should be closed as unreproducible. > > This is an issue only with RAID arrays using a very old format, which > it looks like grub now no longer supports. This, I think, can be > corrected by writing a news entry about that so users will see the > info during an upgrade. No, I do not believe it is intentional that GRUB no longer supports this old format; furthermore, as I said in message #20 on this bug, a simple test with the 0.90 format works fine for me. Thus, not only do we not know exactly what we would write in such a NEWS entry, but it would probably be an inappropriate fix anyway. While I agree that this is a pretty nasty bug if you encounter it, I really need a way to reproduce this in order to fix it; ideally I'd be able to reproduce it in an emulated system so that I can iterate fixes quickly. Perhaps somebody who hasn't made the bug go away on their system could help with this? In the meantime, I don't think it's any more release-critical than any other isolated problem with the boot loader, so I'm downgrading for now to allow 2.00 into testing as on the whole it should be a very significant improvement over 1.99. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
