Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Setting up grub-pc (1.97+20091125-1) ...
> grub-probe: error: cannot stat (null)
> Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
> Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
> Generating grub.cfg ...
>
> I have not tried booting with the result; too scared. :)
>
> This is an x86 system, /boot is a normal directory in the root
> filesystem, and os-prober is not installed.
More to the point I guess, the root filesystem is in ext3 format.
Bug script output from grub-pc_1.97+20091115 (I downgraded) attached.
*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/9dd1f668-ec78-4bd3-9bc3-b6f6073468f7 / ext3
rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9dd1f668-ec78-4bd3-9bc3-b6f6073468f7
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
set timeout=5
### 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_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-rc8-00003-gf1d48cc" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9dd1f668-ec78-4bd3-9bc3-b6f6073468f7
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-rc8-00003-gf1d48cc
root=UUID=9dd1f668-ec78-4bd3-9bc3-b6f6073468f7 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-rc8-00003-gf1d48cc
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.31-1-686" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9dd1f668-ec78-4bd3-9bc3-b6f6073468f7
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-686
root=UUID=9dd1f668-ec78-4bd3-9bc3-b6f6073468f7 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg
