Bug#473340: grub-probe: "cannot find a GRUB drive for ...."

Carlo Fusco fusco.carlo at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 08:27:07 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Carlo Fusco <fusco.carlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can exactly confirm the same bug in my system. I have 2 disks sata,
>  sda1 that is mount in my home dir and sdb1 that conteins the operating
>  system. Some time during boot they get inverted (I imagine is a bios
>  issue) and therefore initiramfs stops and drops me on a shell. Usually
>  a reboot is enough to fix this problem
>
>   Here some more info.
>
>  /boot/grub/device.map.
>
>  (hd0)   /dev/sda

manually changing /boot/grub/device.map to:

(hd0)   /dev/sdb

solved the problem.

-- 
Carlo Fusco





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