Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > I'll have a look at grub2 > support as soon as I find the time. Great. Please let us know when you do. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:35:01PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > This isn't 0.97-33 (it's in experimental). Well, we can drop the grub-install.in part for now, the part in device.c is the important stuff for d-i and since d-i currently doesn't call grub-install but rather calls grub directly this

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:27:20PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Robert, > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Btw, now that I check, this patch won't apply against grub 0.97-33. The > > convert() function has been reimplemented. > Thanks for having a look, I've a

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-07 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Robert, On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Btw, now that I check, this patch won't apply against grub 0.97-33. The > convert() function has been reimplemented. Thanks for having a look, I've attached an updated version which. -- Guido >From ca0658f9df0cd8319c4476f

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:07:59PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > first of all, I fully understand your point regarding grub legacy > > maintenance. But let me explain a bit... > > > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:36:22

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Otavio, > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:09:15PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I'd like to ask you to take a look at grub2 first. If it proves to be > > difficult to do, I can even push Robert to make an exception for this > > patc

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Robert, > first of all, I fully understand your point regarding grub legacy > maintenance. But let me explain a bit... > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Failing that, what you're essentially re

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-02 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio, On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:09:15PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'd like to ask you to take a look at grub2 first. If it proves to be > difficult to do, I can even push Robert to make an exception for this > patch (as we did for e2fsprogs change) however, from d-i POV, the most > diff

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sorry for that. Please understand we're volunteers and are usually too >> busy, specially when it comes to requests for new features that were sent >> to the wrong branch of GRUB. > So am I and that's exactly why I'd like to have working grub legacy >

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Robert, first of all, I fully understand your point regarding grub legacy maintenance. But let me explain a bit... On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Failing that, what you're essentially requesting is that we take care of > upstream maintainance for additional fun

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:51:39PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:39:05AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Unlike Parted 1.8, GRUB 2 is already in the archive, and already interacts > > with the installer. OTOH, I think the sataraid hackery is completely in the > > wrong p

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:39:05AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Unlike Parted 1.8, GRUB 2 is already in the archive, and already interacts > with the installer. OTOH, I think the sataraid hackery is completely in the > wrong place (although I can understand why they did it); please don't use it >

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:48:37PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Otavio, > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:24:58PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While I see that the patch is rather trivial, I share same feeling of > > Robert. Let me explain it a bit

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio, On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:24:58PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I see that the patch is rather trivial, I share same feeling of > Robert. Let me explain it a bit more... I see Roberts point completeley and I imagine it to be a pita mov

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-02-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > but we need support in grub/grub-installer for things to actually work. >> >> Please get it fixed in GRUB 2 first; then we could consider backporting. > Oh c'mon. The bug has been sitting around in the BTS for half a year now > without a comment and

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-02-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:30:16PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > > but we need support in grub/grub-installer for things to actually work. > > > > Please get it fixed in GRUB 2 first; then we could consider backporting. > Oh c'mon. The bug has been sitting around in the BTS for half a year now

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:16:19PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi, > > any comments on the multipath patch. It really is needed to get > > multipath to work in d-i. Many of the needed things are in place now, > > What is multipat

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-02-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > any comments on the multipath patch. It really is needed to get > multipath to work in d-i. Many of the needed things are in place now, What is multipath? The URL referenced in the wiki [1] that is supposed to explain it retur

Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, any comments on the multipath patch. It really is needed to get multipath to work in d-i. Many of the needed things are in place now, but we need support in grub/grub-installer for things to actually work. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un