On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:52:26PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:37:28AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > - grub-mkdevicemap doesn't grok virtio devices. Could you confirm the > > > attached quick & dirty patch makes it work? Also, is this device path > > > Linux-specific? > > > > Yes that make it working. Currently virtio is only supported on Linux, > > so the device patch is Linux-specific. But that may change in the future > > Thanks. That's enough for me to add it to grub-mkdevicemap. > > > > > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub > > > > grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/vda1. Check your > > > > device.map. > > > > > > > > Here is the contents of /boot/grub/device.map before it is destroyed: > > > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > > > > (hd0) /dev/vda > > [...] > > # grub-probe -t drive -d /dev/vda -v > > [...] > > (hd0) > > Now what troubles me here is that grub-probe is working now, but my patch > wasn't supposed to fix anything in it. This seems to be inconsistent with > your previous report. > > Are you completely sure that with your /boot/grub/device.map being: > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/vda > > and grub-common being the pristine version, grub-probe failed and (in > consequence) regenerated your device.map? >
I am sure about that. The only difference is that /usr/sbin/update-grub does not uses the same command, but this one instead: grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map -t drive -d /dev/vda1 And this command: 1) fails 2) destroys /boot/grub/device.map -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
