Bug#301373: update-grub fails silently when / is defined using labels in /etc/fstab

Christian Luijten Christian Luijten <christian@luijten.org>, 301373@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:48:10 +0100


Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-15
Severity: normal


When having something like this in /etc/fstab:
LABEL=root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

update-grub will only output:
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .

without mentioning it cannot find the corresponding root device.

Function find_device in /sbin/update-grub starting on line 58 should
find this device.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information