Comment 28 for bug 1274320

I just made a permanent clean fix for this, at least for MD (software RAID). It can easily be modified to fix for LVM too. Edit /etc/grub.d/00_header and change the recordfail section to this:

if [ "$quick_boot" = 1 ]; then
    cat <<EOF
function recordfail {
  set recordfail=1
EOF
    FS="$(grub-probe --target=fs "${grubdir}")"
    GRUBMDDEVICE="$(grub-probe --target=disk "${grubdir}" | grep \/dev\/md)"
    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
        cat <<EOF
  # GRUB lacks write support for $GRUBMDDEVICE, so recordfail support is disabled.
EOF
    else
        case "$FS" in
          btrfs | cpiofs | newc | odc | romfs | squash4 | tarfs | zfs)
            cat <<EOF
  # GRUB lacks write support for $FS, so recordfail support is disabled.
EOF
            ;;
          *)
            cat <<EOF
  if [ -n "\${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "\${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
EOF
        esac
    fi
    cat <<EOF
}
EOF
fi