severity 499176 important retitle 499176 should fail verbosely when root device cannot be found thanks
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:27:43PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:45:53PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:23:05PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > update-grub fails silent if grub-probe is not able to detect the used > > > root device. > > Please provide more details, including: > > - bash -x output > > - grub-probe output > > - grub-probe -v output > > grub-probe fails if /dev does not contain a sign of the current root. This is intentional. update-grub needs to identify the current root in order to construct grub.cfg / menu.lst. fstab was not reliable, so it's no longer being used. Though, we should probably avoid silencing this particular invocation of grub-probe. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]