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

[Mathias Behrle]

* Betr.: " Re: grub-pc fails to install on evms volumes (dm)" (Wed, 20 Aug 2008
15:27:43 +0200):

> > 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.

What you couldn't see from the message: I also had updated grub-common to
experimental in a second step, but same result.
 
> > (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 perhaps try this another time, but I have to reinstall after those
experiments regularly from a chroot with an install CD. It is my working
machine, so I don't like too many experiments of this nature...

> >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.

Yes, this old version works and if it should stop working for me, I had to
convert back from evms to mdadm with lvm2. It is only a matter of time to do
it, since I lost the main feature of evms, which was for me snapshotting for
backup purposes.

Thanks for your help,
Mathias
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