Bug#467127: post-install fails with grub-probe: error: Cannot get the real path of `/dev/sda'

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:45:52PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
> 
> grub-probe fails like this:
> 
> # grub-probe --target=drive --device /dev/sdb1
> grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your 
> device.map.
> 
> # device.map is unchanged, see previous output

Ah, right.  I'll see what you mean.  Maybe it'd be a good idea to start
generating device.map dynamically; although this has other disadvantages...

Could you bring this up in grub-devel at gnu.org?  I'd like to have it
discussed in upstream.

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