On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:37:23PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > Package: grub > Version: 0.97-47 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/sbin/update-grub > > Hi > > during some updates, I ended up with device.map not containing correct > mappings. In this situation update-grub silently fails without giving > any notice what is wrong. From tracing this script, I found it ends with > following commands: > > + test -e /boot/grub/device.map > + GRUB_LEGACY_0_BASED_PARTITIONS=1 grub-probe > --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map -t drive -d /dev/hda1 > + grub_root_device= > > The problem was that I did not have mapping for hda in device.map (it > used to be hde in older kernel versions). I think update-grub should at > least tell that something is wrong and not silently fail.
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