Package: grub-pc Version 1.98+20100527-2 0 libc6 Version: 2.11.1-2 Kernel 2.6.32-5-686
Setting up grub-common (1.98+20100527-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ... Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100527-2) ... /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found the /proc/devices: line goes on for 2 or 3 minutes. if you reboot after upgrading grub-pc you get: kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot... [ 5.374816] Kernel panic - no syncing: Attempted to kill init! -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/disk/by-uuid/5603c42b- 2d73-4b60-a954-ad232cf5c0de / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0 /dev/sda5 /media/disk2 ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/disk0 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=lower,quiet,errors=remount-ro 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 30 12:04:26 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Had to downgrade to testing version in order to be able to boot. Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.98-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.11.1-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv grub-pc recommends no packages. Versions of packages grub-pc suggests: ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto -- debconf information: grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: * grub-pc/linux_cmdline: * grub2/linux_cmdline: * grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet nomodeset -- debsums errors found: debsums: missing file /usr/bin/grub-mkimage (from grub-pc package)