My hypothesis that it was simply listing the fs type of the bootable partition is incorrect. I changed sda4 to be bootable, but its still listing the fstype of sda1. Also, I happen to have another installation of debian thats not quite so up to date and grub-probe seems to be working okay there. Here is the output from the grub2 1.97+20091115-1, and following that is the output from the latest grub2 1.98-1.
(this is the output from the older grub2) r...@dogmatrix:~# dpkg-query -s grub-common Package: grub-common Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 2444 Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: grub2 Version: 1.97+20091115-1 Replaces: grub-coreboot (<< 1.97+20091114-1), grub-efi (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-ieee1275 (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-linuxbios (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-pc (<< 1.97+20091114-1) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), base-files (>= 4.0.1~) Recommends: os-prober (>= 1.33) Suggests: multiboot-doc, grub-emu Conflicts: grub-doc (<< 0.97-32), grub-legacy-doc (<< 0.97-59), mdadm (<< 2.6.7-2) Conffiles: /etc/grub.d/README be58f42dfe74feb6eeb98c6a843c743f /etc/grub.d/10_linux ef73bcd6544dc221f68fbe9c359411eb /etc/grub.d/00_header 7eadb1c796713b39f03a8bf6d9c31c62 /etc/grub.d/40_custom babe7de352fe18de5a238569cf4b8a11 /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober 42c94154d1830d3945a427e18877f4ca Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) This package contains common files shared by the distinct flavours of GRUB. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html r...@dogmatrix:~# r...@dogmatrix:~# grub-probe --device /dev/sda4 --target=fs ext2 r...@dogmatrix:~# r...@dogmatrix:~# grub-probe --verbose --device /dev/sda4 --target=fs grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: /dev/sda4 starts from 370228320 grub-probe: info: opening the device hd0 grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 grub-probe: info: DOS partition 0 starts from 63 grub-probe: info: BSD partition 0,a starts from 63 grub-probe: info: BSD partition 0,f starts from 48821535 grub-probe: info: BSD partition 0,g starts from 370228320 grub-probe: info: opening hd0,1,g grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 390721968 ext2 r...@dogmatrix:~# A few reboots and some cursing later.. (what follows is from the latest grub2). r...@dogmatrix:~# r...@dogmatrix:~# /usr/sbin/grub-probe --verbose --device /dev/sda4 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map'. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: /dev/sda4 starts from 370228320. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening the device /dev/sda. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of /dev/sda is 390721968. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: DOS partition 0 starts from 63. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: BSD partition 0,a starts from 63. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: BSD partition 0,f starts from 48821535. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: BSD partition 0,g starts from 370228320. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening /dev/sda,1,a. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of /dev/sda is 390721968. ufs1 r...@dogmatrix:~# r...@dogmatrix:~# dpkg-query -s grub-common Package: grub-common Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 4192 Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: grub2 Version: 1.98-1 Replaces: grub-coreboot (<< 1.97+20091114-1), grub-efi (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-ieee1275 (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-linuxbios (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-pc (<< 1.97+20091114-1) Depends: base-files (>= 4.0.1~), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info | dpkg (<= 1.14.25), libc6 (>= 2.3), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), gettext-base Recommends: os-prober (>= 1.33) Suggests: multiboot-doc, grub-emu Conflicts: grub-doc (<< 0.97-32), grub-legacy-doc (<< 0.97-59), mdadm (<< 2.6.7-2) Conffiles: /etc/grub.d/10_linux c9e493e3bcf41b4abef3e2d1c1927e7d /etc/grub.d/README be58f42dfe74feb6eeb98c6a843c743f /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober 543b8f6ec0bab559ac3117cff1f1271d /etc/grub.d/40_custom babe7de352fe18de5a238569cf4b8a11 /etc/grub.d/00_header 577b1b6075f5e8ed8bba8b5dd62ed46a Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) This package contains common files shared by the distinct flavours of GRUB. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html r...@dogmatrix:~# r...@dogmatrix:~# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
