Molle Bestefich schrieb: > Chris Nicola wrote: > >>Yes I am having the exact same problem. I am actually just going to try >>and lower version of grub for now but I will try this patch if that >>still happens. > > > Just did this: > ========== > grub> device (hd0) /dev/mapper/hpt37x_ehgjaggaf > grub> root (hd0,5)/boot > Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 > grub> setup (hd0) > ========== > > and it destroyed my RAID0. > GRUB is such a piece of crap :-). Um, GRUB works fine for me, even on totally crazy RAID systems not yet supported by dmraid. There is a well-kept secret you need to know: You can install GRUB just fine IFF you boot from a GRUB boot floppy. NEVER (except for trivial configurations) use the GRUB shell running under any operating system. > It must be severely broken; since if it just sticked to writing to the > device I pointed it at (hpt37x_ehgjaggaf) which is a RAID0 "virtual > disk" / whatever, it should never be able to overwrite metadata out on > the physical disk. > > Anyway, just wanted to tell you to beware. > Gerte has a GRUB example on his page where he does setup (hd0,5) > instead of setup (hd0), perhaps that's how it's meant to work. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
