Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with "Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N."

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:42:10AM +0200, Moritz Naumann wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-41
> Severity: important
> 
> I'm unable to install any linux (kernel) security updates or any other
> kernels at all. Whenever I try to installa new kernel image (and thus
> run update-grub) I get this:
> 
> > Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub.
> > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> > grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-5.  Check your
> > device.map.

Does this patch (for grub-common) fix the problem?

-- 
Robert Millan

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