Bug#425666: grub-pc: update-grub unable to detect /usr on lvm

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:15:38PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> severity 425666 important
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:32:11AM -0400, Bharath Ramesh wrote:
> > 
> > When /usr is a separate partition on lvm update-grub creates entry for
> > unifont.pff on the lvm partition which is not detected by grub.
> 
> Please send the output of the following commands:
> 
> grub-probe -v /usr
> cat /proc/mounts
> cat /boot/grub/device.map
> grub-mkdevicemap -m -
> 
> > unifont.pff
> > should either be in grub directory of /boot
> 
> No, that creates other problems (unifont.pff is too big for /boot/grub).
> 
> > or update-grub shouldnt add entry
> > to the font.
> 
> Agreed.  I'll try to make this part fault-tollerant.

Could you try the attached patch and report if it disabled unifont.pff for
you?

Thanks

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