Bug#450709: grub-pc: installation failure under linux + udev

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:54:46PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> on linux systems with udev, grub2 doesn't work at all, error message is
> error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/...
> 
> A partial fix can be found at http://darac.livejournal.com/220952.html
> 
> But ... util/biosdisk.c has another issue with detecting udev. The 
> routine has_devfs searchs for /dev/.devfsd, which cames from deprecated 
> devfs. Enclosed is a synthetic patch, I compiled and ran it fine on my 
> machine.

I have some questions about your patch, but I'd rather discuss them in
upstream mailing list (so that others can take part in it).

Would you mind resending this to <grub-devel at gnu.org> ?

-- 
Robert Millan

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