grub doesn't recognize the i2o block device. To make i2o work with grub we can apply these patches (in sequence): http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/grub/grub-0.93-special-device-names.patch http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/patches/grub-0.94-i2o.patch Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: grub doesn't boot with a i2o raid Expected Results: boot on a i2o root RAID Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/mail/dspam /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/x86/desktop" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://10.0.4.11/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns aliaschain alsa altcolors amd apache2 apm aredmem arts artswrappersuid atlas atm audiofile aviba-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bonobo cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cjk clamav codecs crypt cups devfs26 dga divx4linux djbfft dlz dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl encode esd ethereal evo extensions faac faad fam fbcon festival ffmpeg fftw flac flood font-server foomaticdb fortran freetts freetype frlargefiles gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gs gsm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guild ieee1394 imagemagick imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 irda irmc jabber2 jack java jce jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit kadu-modules kadu-voice kde kerberos large-domain lcms ldap ldirectord libwww lirc live lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir maildrop mailwrapper matroska mbrola mdb mew mha mikmod mime mimencode mmapmmx mng motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msdav mysql mythtv ncursees ncurses network neural nlsnntp ntlm nvidia oav odbc oggvorbis openal opengl opens opie oss pam pcre pda pdf pdfkit pdflib perl php png pnp postgres ppds procmail pthreads pwdb python qmail qt quicktime quotes radeon readline remote roundrobin samba sasl scanner sdl silentdrop slang slp sms snmp speex spel spell sqlite ssl svg svga szip tcltk tcpd tetex tga tiff tinydyndns transcode truetype type1 type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vda vhosts vim vim-with-x virus-scan wmf wsconvert xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xv xvid yv12 zaptel zlib"
Created attachment 47208 [details, diff] grub-0.93-special-device-names.patch
Created attachment 47209 [details, diff] grub-0.94-i2o.patch
re-open if grub-0.96 doesnt do the right thing
seems it doesnt ;)
0.96-r1 has the upstream fix
