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| author | Scott Schaefer <saschaefer@neurodiverse.org> | 2011-08-01 10:45:22 +0200 |
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| committer | martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> | 2011-09-10 13:07:32 +0200 |
| commit | 064ade169ce3543bf53ee4427adce96836a420f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 36c08f8773a579ef14e091625b1274a9a1ac4cc9 /debian/NEWS | |
| parent | 402a473697572f0ee5232716046d3b45d7072411 (diff) | |
NEWS entry about new metadata requiring new Grub
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/595516
Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/NEWS | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index 51bb8822..f0c0e93f 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,24 @@ +mdadm (3.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low + + Metadata format change requires recent Grub + The following only applies to users who want to let the grub-pc bootloader + load the kernel directly off a RAID device created with mdadm 3.x and + default values, or when the metadata version is explicitly set using -e. + + Specifically, this includes all arrays created during or after the + installation of Debian squeeze (mdadm-3.1.4+8efb9d1). Arrays created with + older mdadm versions, and RAIDs created with the command-line option + -e 0.9 are not affected. + + Versions of grub-pc older than 1.98+20100720-1 will not be able to boot + directly off a RAID with the 1.x metadata formats (the new default is 1.2). + To ensure a bootable system, please make sure to use grub-pc 1.98+20100720-1 + or later, which is provided by Debian squeeze. An unbootable system may be + rescued with Super Grub2 Disk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/) + or grml (http://grml.org/). + + -- Scott Schaefer <saschaefer@neurodiverse.org> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:21:50 -0400 + mdadm (3.1.4-1+8efb9d1) unstable; urgency=low Default metadata format for newly created arrays has changed from |