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Re: Bug#632048: segfault in grub-setup


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: Bug#632048: segfault in grub-setup
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:44:00 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0

The problem with floppy part was fixed and the attempt to install on partionless disk was a user error. Closing
On 06.09.2011 16:50, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
2011-09-06 09:18:57 +0100, Colin Watson:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:39:24AM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
I do get a segfault as well when doing a grub-setup/grub-install
on a mdraid with 1.2 metadata.

The segv is in:

grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy() because the disk->id for the root
device is not a bios disk id, but a big number that is the
"array id". The patch below seems to fix it for me, though I
can't tell it's the right fix or not (probably not).
This fix makes sense to me; calling grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy on
disks that aren't GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_BIOSDISK_ID doesn't make sense.
grub-devel, second opinion?

--- a/util/grub-setup.c         2011-09-05 12:11:31.864955442 +0100
+++ b/util/grub-setup.c 2011-09-05 13:00:24.891368760 +0100
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
      /* If DEST_DRIVE is a hard disk, enable the workaround, which is
         for buggy BIOSes which don't pass boot drive correctly. Instead,
         they pass 0x00 or 0x01 even when booted from 0x80.  */
-    if (!allow_floppy&&  !grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy (dest_dev->disk))
+    if (!allow_floppy&&  dest_dev->disk->dev->id == 
GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_BIOSDISK_ID&&  !grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy (dest_dev->disk))
        /* Replace the jmp (2 bytes) with double nop's.  */
        *boot_drive_check = 0x9090;
    }
[...]

Well, anyway, even after that patch, it still doesn't work

grub-install /dev/md0
reports success for nothing is written to any disk.

grub-install /dev/sda
           or /dev/sdb

doesn't work because it complains about a partition-less disk.

Looks like it's not supported. Strange, as when started, grub
can happily see files on 1.2 raids (using mdraid1x). Or did I
miss something.

I'll have to revert to 0.9 metadata for now.



--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko




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