More specifically, at least in our case, 1.97 grub-probe returns "(hd0,msdos1)". Legacy grub-install isn't prepared to handle that format.
I hacked the update-grub script on my problem-du-jour machine to rewrite "msdos1" into "0" (actually, it does the math on the supplied digits), and that seems to solve the problem. As my hack adds a perl command, I'm guessing a cleaner solution will be wanted for distribution. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org