Similar happened to me upon update manager upgrade to grub -pc 1.99-21ubuntu3.4. The "COnfigure Grub Devices" dialog offered choices of /dev/sda and /dev/sda6. Selecting both of these, the Details display of update manager showed
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat '/,' I deselected /dev/sda6 and continued. Afterwards, but not rebooting yet, I see the following. This (as can be seen) is a dual-boot Win7 / Ubuntu 12.04 machine. [code] ~$ fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x29133921 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 209717247 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 209717248 241174527 15728640 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 241176574 488355839 123589633 5 Extended /dev/sda4 488355840 488397167 20664 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/sda5 480356352 488355839 3999744 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 241176576 476184575 117504000 83 Linux /dev/sda7 476186624 480344063 2078720 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: 2128 MB, 2128609280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 258 cylinders, total 4157440 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x26f89c28 Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 doesn't contain a valid partition table [/code] (The /dev/sda7 second swap was created by the upgrade process from 11.10 to 12.04) Then I ran: [code] ~$ update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic-pae Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-30-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-30-generic-pae Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic-pae Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1 Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda2 done [/code] and found [code] ~$ debconf-show grub-pc grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: grub2/device_map_regenerated: * grub-pc/install_devices: grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true grub-pc/disk_description: * grub2/linux_cmdline: * grub-pc/install_devices_empty: true grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet grub-pc/partition_description: grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false * grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed: * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/hidden_timeout: false grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true grub-pc/timeout: 10 [/code] As stated above, dpkg-reconfigure was successful from the cmd line: [code] ~$ dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=gnome grub-pc Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic-pae Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-30-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-30-generic-pae Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic-pae Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1 Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda2 done [/code] (I am posting this now and will comment again in a while after I back up the drive before rebooting) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009531 Title: configuring grub-pc install devices did not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1009531/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
