Re: [PATCH] fix for partmap detection on RAID/LVM

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:43:21PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Robert Millan writes:
> 
> > This is only known to work on proof-of-concept test systems.  *Please* 
> > anyone
> > who was affected on real, production systems, test it (against latest CVS) 
> > and
> > send feedback.  The problem was that:
> > 
> >   grub-probe -t partmap /some_path
> > 
> > is unable to detect the partition map when /some_path was part of some LVM 
> > or
> > RAID abstraction.
> 
> Yes, works fine for me.
> 
> 13:41:19 address@hidden:~/vc/grub2
> $ /home/janneke/pkg/grub2/sbin/grub-probe -t abstraction /boot
> lvm
> 13:41:23 address@hidden:~/vc/grub2
> $ /home/janneke/pkg/grub2/sbin/grub-probe -t partmap /boot
> grub-probe: error: unknown device
> [1]13:41:33 address@hidden:~/vc/grub2
> $ sudo /home/janneke/pkg/grub2/sbin/grub-probe -t partmap /boot
> pc

But the first time it reports unknown device?  What did you change?

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