Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-09 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Dan Poltawski wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:35:53AM -0400, Samat K Jain wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008 04:53:57 am Dan Poltawski wrote: Just in response to this - my problem has not been caused by an upgrade - it was a clean lenny install

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-09 Thread Dan Poltawski
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:27:51PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: It might be possible that the names sda to sdd were used for something that wasn't an hard disk during the install (a card reader with 4 different slots might be a good candidate). Then your system would still boot properly with

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-09 Thread Dan Poltawski
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:28:56PM +0100, Dan Poltawski wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:27:51PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: It might be possible that the names sda to sdd were used for something that wasn't an hard disk during the install (a card reader with 4 different slots might be a

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Poltawski
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:35:53AM -0400, Samat K Jain wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008 04:53:57 am Dan Poltawski wrote: Just in response to this - my problem has not been caused by an upgrade - it was a clean lenny install onto a new machine a few days ago. Well, something regenerated

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-07 Thread Dan Poltawski
Hi, (sorry for second mail - didn't send to bug) On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Montag, den 06.10.2008, 19:02 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: If you do `grub-install /dev/sda' then it should be in your device.map. Either run grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy or

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-07 Thread Samat K Jain
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 04:53:57 am Dan Poltawski wrote: Just in response to this - my problem has not been caused by an upgrade - it was a clean lenny install onto a new machine a few days ago. Well, something regenerated device.map since installation. I don't think your system would

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Poltawski
Package: grub Version: 0.97-47 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software When installing new kernels onto the system, the kernel package post instalation fails on update-grub (output attached below), this problem has also affected a number of my collegues, all of us have a

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, Am Montag, den 06.10.2008, 13:44 +0100 schrieb Dan Poltawski: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map -t drive -d /dev/sda1 error: cannot open `/dev/sdf' error: cannot open `/dev/sdf' grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1.

Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

2008-10-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 06.10.2008, 19:02 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: If you do `grub-install /dev/sda' then it should be in your device.map. Either run grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy or grub-install with `--recheck --no-floppy'. Urm I forgot somehow that you're talking about update-grub not