Re: the order of the modules when create core image

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:22:19PM +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi, all,
> I don't know which mail list should I send this question to, so I send to 
> here. Hope somebody will help me.
> I create a MD raid0 in my VirtualBox that has two virtual disks (I create the 
> Virtual PC according to my old PC.) Each disk has 2 partitions, one for raid, 
> one for swap. no LVM on the raid0. and I want to use grub2 on it.
> I got the src from svn 2008-11-11. and compiled it successfully. But when I 
> install it with 
> grub-install --modules=mdraid /dev/hda, the grub2 can't enter into normal 
> mode. With ls command, it don't show the md1 device.
> So I changed the module order in grub-install when create core image, move 
> the $module to after biosdisk, and install again, the it shows the md1device. 

Supporting this from user input is quite tricky.  Would be much better if it
can be auto-detected, like we do for LVM, etc.

What does "grub-probe -t abstraction /boot/grub" print?

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