ping Goh Lip - grub2 specialist

[Tom H]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:29 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Know anything about the lousy grub-pc package in Hardy?
>>>
>>> Got two disks, sda and sdb. Two primary partitions on each (1,2) with
>>> the 1 partitions going to md0 for raid1, ext2 and the 2 partitions going
>>> to md1 for raid1, pv.
>>>
>>> grub-install will complain about "unknown device" if I feed it /dev/sda
>>> or dev/sdb or '(hd0)' but will complain about "Can't embed core.img blah
>>> blah" if I feed it /dev/md0. Rather, grub-setup will complain after
>>> grub-install passes the flags onto grub-setup.
>>
>> I would avoid grub2 pre-Lucid...
>>
>
> Oh...so I guess I better hold off any attempt to upgrade from Hardy to
> Lucid for the server then. grub it is.

Does "grub it is" mean that you aren't upgrading or that you're
upgrading to grub2 after the upgrade to Lucid (the proper way, :) )?