Hi Simon,
After upgrading you may have option for grub legacy or grub2 for use.
Please check which one you are using.You have to use command
'upgrade-from-grub-legacy' to use grub2 permanently.
grub2 use file /boot/grub/grub.cfg and legacy file /boot/grub/menu.lst
compare to use right device for
Sorry, I have been able to solve the problem in the mean time. For some
reason one of the grub commands called by the script that creates grub.cfg
failed. It was the one retrieving the id of the HDD. I changed the grub.cfg
file manually to use a /dev/ device instead of uuid and my laptop booted
Hello,
I have an AMD64 debian unstable installation running on my laptop. I
upgraded my system today, but while installing an updated version of grub-pc
something goes wrong. It tells me that it cannot find a device for
/boot/grub while executing grub-probe. What can I do to try and solve this
Hello Simon,
Are you upgrading from grub-legacy to grub2 (grub-pc) ?
If the old grub worked for you before without problems then it may help if you
post the old config file /boot/grub/menu.lst and the new one which is
effectively /etc/default/grub.
If there's something special with your laptop
Try 'search' (search devices by a file or a filesystem label) and 'help'.
oh if you're still on legacy then it's rather 'find' not 'search'
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Thank you for the suggestions, I will try to look at the configuration and
see if that is the problem. I am not upgrading from grub-legacy, I have been
using grub-pc for some time now. I tried to downgrade to the previous
version or grub-pc, but that didn't work for me either.
On Oct 7, 2009 1:24
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