ping Goh Lip - grub2 specialist

[Goh Lip]

On Wednesday 22,September,2010 08:06 AM, 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.
>
> cheers,
>
> Christopher
Hi Christopher, just got back and saw this thread. Thanks for your 
confidence. Yes, I did have grub2 in my old Hardy, (since scrubbed).
Installed it just by "sudo apt-get install grub-pc".

However, I have no experience in using raid or LVM and at that early 
times of grub2, there are problems with it; I believe it has been 
resolved and an early resolution (resolution?, okay, solution) was to 
set the /boot partition away from the arrays (per Fajar).

So, yes the grub2 as installed in Hardy itself might have problems (per 
NoOp) and I am still not sure if the newer grub may handle this. Sorry.

But you can always put in a newer grub version just by "sudo 
grub-install --root-directory /dev/sda<Hardy> from a newer version of 
livecd or another partition. But remember this does not create any 
grub.cfg (menu.lst) by itself.

So, Christopher, I am not that 'expert' as you think and there are 
others here, including Tom H who have better experience with the issue.

Apologies, Christopher, I am unable to help you with much, but good luck 
with your project.

Regards - Goh Lip