Bug#596787: installation-reports: grub legacy writes incorrect menu.lst when disks are RAIDed

[mfidelman@ntcorp.com]

Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidelman@ntcorp.com):
>    
> > Package: installation-reports
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: d-i
> >
> > system has two mirrored disks, /dev/md0 is boot, /dev/md2 is root
> >
> > selecting grub-legacy, and specifying either /dev/hda or (hd0) for installation
> > results in a menu.lst file with the line
> > groot=(md0) and all of the boot sections starting with root (md0)
> >
> > at boot time, grub throws an error - it (corretly) doesn't recognize md0 as a
> > proper construction
> >
> > editing menu.lst to read
> > groot=(hd0,0)
> > and running update-grub
> >
> > leads to a correct and functional menu.lst
> >      
>
> Which image did you use for this?
>
> How did you proceed to setupthis in the partitioning step.
>
> We need that information in order to try reproducing the problem
>    

I was using the alpha1 CD image, somewhat old at this point.  Currently 
running an install with today's USB image, and it seems to have 
discovered the network card, loaded the firmware and is working 
properly.  Would probably be hard to collect the info at this point.  
Might be better to close the report.