Re: grub 0.96 bug

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Molle Bestefich schrieb:
> Chris Nicola wrote:
> 
>>Yes I am having the exact same problem.  I am actually just going to try
>>and lower version of grub for now but I will try this patch if that
>>still happens.
> 
> 
> Just did this:
> ==========
> grub> device (hd0) /dev/mapper/hpt37x_ehgjaggaf
> grub> root (hd0,5)/boot
> Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
> grub> setup (hd0)
> ==========
> 
> and it destroyed my RAID0.
> GRUB is such a piece of crap :-).

Um, GRUB works fine for me, even on totally crazy RAID systems not yet
supported by dmraid. There is a well-kept secret you need to know:
You can install GRUB just fine IFF you boot from a GRUB boot floppy.
NEVER (except for trivial configurations) use the GRUB shell running
under any operating system.


> It must be severely broken; since if it just sticked to writing to the
> device I pointed it at (hpt37x_ehgjaggaf) which is a RAID0 "virtual
> disk" / whatever, it should never be able to overwrite metadata out on
> the physical disk.
> 
> Anyway, just wanted to tell you to beware.
> Gerte has a GRUB example on his page where he does setup (hd0,5)
> instead of setup (hd0), perhaps that's how it's meant to work.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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