Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-14 Severity: normal
I had an update-grub fail only reporting "exiting with value 1". I eventually found the problem that /boot/grub/device.map was inaccurate, due to having to use different device names as I sometimes have usb drives plugged in when booting which can use the /dev/sda name like the SCSI disk. My working /boot/grub/device.map is: (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SIBM_DCAS-34330W_F3T92021 I use the /dev/disk/by-id/* path for the real SCSI disk, and /dev/disk/by-label/* path for any usb drives, but others might be using /dev/disk/by-uuid/*. Could someone please fix the update-grub script to better report a failure due to problems with /boot/grub/device.map? Arthur. -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/disk/by-uuid/026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/hda1 /victoriac vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /scsic vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda3 /mirror3 ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/hda7 /victoriad vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sdb5 /scsid vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SIBM_DCAS-34330W_F3T92021 *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### set default=0 set timeout=10 terminal console ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue set menu_color_highlight=white/blue ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-1-686" { set root=(hd0,5) search --fs-uuid --set 026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-1-686 root=UUID=026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-686 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-1-686 (single-user mode)" { set root=(hd0,5) search --fs-uuid --set 026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-1-686 root=UUID=026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-686 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28" { set root=(hd0,5) search --fs-uuid --set 026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28 root=UUID=026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28 (single-user mode)" { set root=(hd0,5) search --fs-uuid --set 026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28 root=UUID=026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686" { set root=(hd0,5) search --fs-uuid --set 026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686 (single-user mode)" { set root=(hd0,5) search --fs-uuid --set 026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=026a3f5c-0064-4ae7-869e-519d2cee05e7 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" { linux /boot/memtest86+.bin } ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry "Windows 95/98/Me (on /dev/hda1)" { set root=(hd0,1) chainloader +1 } menuentry "Windows 95/98/Me (on /dev/sdb1)" { set root=(hd1,1) chainloader +1 } ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file is an example on how to add custom entries ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### *********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.96+20080724-14 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii liblzo2-2 2.03-1 data compression library ii libncurses5 5.7+20090124-1 shared libraries for terminal hand grub-pc recommends no packages. Versions of packages grub-pc suggests: pn desktop-base <none> (no description available) ii os-prober 1.28 utility to detect other OSes on a -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org