Bug#465033: grub-pc: grub-setup fails to open the root-device if it is on a LVM

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Michael Guntsche wrote:
> 
> Ok, I tried it again with grub-install and the problem is still there,
> grub-setup fails the same way.
> For testing purposes I extracted "grub-setup" from grub-pc_1.96 
> +20080203-1_i386.deb and used this one instead of the one in  
> grub2_1.96+20080209-1_i386.deb (I copied it to /usr/sbin).
> grub-install finished without any problems, so I think the problem is  
> in grub-setup itself.
> 
> So  grub2_1.96+20080209-1_i386.deb+grub-setup from grub-pc_1.96 
> +20080203-1_i386.deb works.

What happens if you run grub-emu and try:

grub> ls (fatoftheland-main)/

Do you see any specific error?  And if you do a "set debug=all" first?

Also, I notice that you don't have any /boot partition.  Does GRUB Legacy
even work here?  I can't see how LVM can be supported via embedding since
the first 2 kiB of disk are reserved for the LVM label already.

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Robert Millan

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