Scott Schaefer: NEWS entry about new metadata requiring new Grub

[Martin F. Krafft]

Module: mdadm
Branch: master
Commit: 064ade169ce3543bf53ee4427adce96836a420f1
URL:    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commit;h=064ade169ce3543bf53ee4427adce96836a420f1

Author: Scott Schaefer <saschaefer at neurodiverse.org>
Date:   Mon Aug  1 10:45:22 2011 +0200

NEWS entry about new metadata requiring new Grub

Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/595516

Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck at debian.org>

---

 debian/NEWS      |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 debian/changelog |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 51bb882..f0c0e93 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 at 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
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a87dfb8..5f621cc 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ mdadm (3.2.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     (closes: #611632).
   * Work around a shell coding bug for cases when there are zero active
     devices (closes: #618561).
+  * Add NEWS entry about metadata change and requirement on new Grub version
+    (closes: #595516).
   * Update mdadd.sh script from Arno's webpage.
   * Update md.txt from latest kernel source.
   * Updated debconf translations: