Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > during the half year that this bug has been rotting away unanswered in > the BTS, it has matured to be a showstopper. > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:40:08AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> my /boot is on a crypted dm-crypt partition. I know I can't boot from >> there, but /boot is regularly unisoned to an USB stick which then >> _can_ boot. >> >> When I run update-grub on the crypted /boot, I get a number of >> grub-probe: error: no mapping exists for boot' >> errors, but that's not actually an error, the generated grub.cfg is >> just fine. >> > > In the current grub version (1.98-1), update-grub aborts with this > error message, caused by /etc/grub.d/00_header calling grub-probe via > prepare_grub_to_access_device in order to find locales and translations. > > Frankly, I don't care about a translated boot manager which is able > to show Umlauts, I am perfectly satisfied with an english-only > bootload. I _do_ actually care about a boot manager which is able to > create configuration which will actually boot my system. > > I solved the issue by commenting out the stanza starting with "Gettext > variables and module" in /etc/grub.d/00_header, but would like to have > a possibility of grub handling my special case, for example by being > able to override the grub-probe calls with a hard-coded value which I > know being correct. We already offer such possibility. Files in etc/grub.d/ are configuration files like any other and modifiing then is a correct way of handling such special usecases. > grub-probe doesn't have a chance to auto-detect > the actual boot device on my system, I just need a original directory > which I can then unison to the actual boot device. > > $ grep /boot /proc/mounts > /dev/mapper/boot /boot ext3 > rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,commit=5,data=writeback 0 0 > $ sudo dmsetup table | grep ^boot > boot: 0 2096120 crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 00000000000000000000000000000000 0 > 254:5 1032 > $ sudo dmsetup ls | grep '(254, 5)' > swivel-c_boot (254, 5) > $ > > Greetings > Marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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