Aravind Gottipati wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Nailed it. In upstream it was fixed by Grégoire Sutre in r2317
=== modified file 'util/hostdisk.c'
--- util/hostdisk.c 2010-02-07 01:47:18 +0000
+++ util/hostdisk.c 2010-04-18 10:45:51 +0000
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@
dos_part_str = xasprintf (",%d", dos_part + 1);
if (bsd_part >= 0)
- bsd_part_str = xasprintf (",%c", dos_part + 'a');
+ bsd_part_str = xasprintf (",%c", bsd_part + 'a');
ret = xasprintf ("%s%s%s", map[drive].drive,
dos_part_str ? : "",-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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