Bug#430513: grub-pc fails to install on evms volumes (dm)

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 20.08.2008, 13:43 +0200 schrieb Mathias Behrle:
Hello,

thanks very much for replying.

> With latest version from experimental I get:
> Richte grub-common ein (1.96+20080724-7) ...
> Richte grub-pc ein (1.96+20080730-1) ...

grub-probe is in grub-common and as you can see above it's the lenny
version not experimental.

> (x86_64)root at obelix:/home/mathiasb# grub-install hd0
> grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/evms/sda1.  Check your
> device.map.

Maybe it helps if you recreate it.
Either with `grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy'
or just `grub-install --recheck --no-floppy'
`grub-mkdevicemap' is in grub-common too.

>I will now downgrade again to grub2_1.95-5_amd64.deb, because I need this
>workstation and cannot face longer downtimes.

It's good that you found a version which works for you.
Else I wouldn't suggest using that old version.

By the way the `evms' package has been on 2008-07-24 now completely
removed from Debian.
So I think it's not that important now to support it, but I would like
to have it working for you nevertheless.

It would be very kind of you if you try it with the experimental
grub-common package too.