On 11/25/2010 5:26 AM, John Sheu wrote: > What's the preferred way to differentiate BIOS fakeraid from regular > software mdraid? The only way I know of is detecting that it is a dmraid device as opposed to md, which is why grub does it that way. This worked well in the past when each tool exclusively handled one type of raid. > I ask this as I'm booting with GRUB2 off a system that has one of those > Intel fakeraid chipsets. As of a few months ago, the mdadm package has > supported these fakeraid setups, so the RAID array comes up as a /dev/md### > device. This is unfortunate, as GRUB2 assumes that any device of the type > /dev/md### must be a pure software RAID device, and in > util/grub-setup.c:939, tries to install itself to the RAID members > individually: For grub to support fakeraids activated by the md driver, it needs some way to find out that it is actually a fake raid, and not a software raid. Adding linux-raid to Cc list to see if they can suggest a way of doing that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
