Bug#94200: should work on RAID partitions

[Brian May]

Package: grub
Version: 0.5.93.1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

I can't use grub on my system because it uses RAID. It can't
load stage2, menu.lst or the Linux kernel from my RAID partitions.

Prevously I use a seperate harddisk just for booting from, with a
non-RAID ext2 filesystem for grub. However, that harddisk is dying. :-(
grub needs to support some redundancy for booting, and I think
RAID is a good way to do this.

I can't even hack Grub to use just one of my (hardcoded) RAID-1 mirrors,
because the partition type is for RAID (0xFD) instead of ext2 (0x83).

So a future version of grub which supports RAID can't rely on using the
partition type to tell what the filesystem is.

It goes without saying that this RAID is probably an upstream issue.

RAID-1 is the most important for me (it is the only one I currently
use), but eventually I would hope that all the major RAID modes could be
implemented.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux snoopy 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 13:50:13 EST 2001 i686

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.1.3-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses4                   4.2-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand