ping Goh Lip - grub2 specialist

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:02 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 05:06 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Hey Goh Lip,
>>
>> 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.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
> [Upgrading to GRUB 2]
> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto
> <https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Ubuntu>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/grub-pc
>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bugs
> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bugs?field.searchtext=hardy&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=>
>

Hey NoOp,

I get it, I get it. Hardy shipped a broken grub2. Not the only thing it 
shipped broken on release but it appears to be one of those that never 
got any attention. No need to rub the salt in.

I just hope a do-release-upgrade to Lucid won't hose everything later on.