Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010, Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au wrote:
> > Should this be reassigned to partman-auto-raid?
>
> I would say partman-md (as it will also affect manually created arrays).
> As p-a-raid depends on partman-md that will work fine.
> We'll possibly need to do something to activate it in the lenny-support
> udeb but the basic support is needed in partman-md first.
>
> Your patch won't work (as you probably suspected), although the basic
> idea is correct. It should be in partman-md and I would use a Type:
> boolean and name the template "superblock-compat" or something with
> Default: false. I'll see if I can put something together.
It looks like the default superblock version will be changed back to 0.90
in mdadm for Squeeze. That means no workaround in partman would be needed.
So I'm putting this on hold for now, but it also means RAID installs,
especially with /boot on RAID, will reamain problematic until an updated
version of mdadm appears.
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