Bug#450709: grub-pc: installation failure under linux + udev

[Pascal A. Dupuis]

Package: grub-pc
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hello,

on linux systems with udev, grub2 doesn't work at all, error message is
error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/...

A partial fix can be found at http://darac.livejournal.com/220952.html

But ... util/biosdisk.c has another issue with detecting udev. The 
routine has_devfs searchs for /dev/.devfsd, which cames from deprecated 
devfs. Enclosed is a synthetic patch, I compiled and ran it fine on my 
machine.

Best regards

Pascal Dupuis


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=fr_BE, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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