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Re: Bug#417407: debian-installer: possible workarounds for "d-i destroyed existing raid device"



"Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> writes:

> [2] wrap the mount/umount sections of code in os-prober with calls to
> blockdev to set the block device readonly (and restore old perms on
> umount). This would side step the deficiencies in the "unconditional
> ext3 journal recovery code". (but this would need a block-dev udeb
> added to util-linux source)

I personally like this option. This way we workaround the problem and
also turn the os-prober really readonly that also makes more sense to
me.

The only possible issue is about the release being too near for the
inclusion of this udeb and such code change.

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