Bug#477304: closed by "Felix Zielcke" <fzielcke at z-51.de> (Grubfails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map)

[Felix Zielcke]

reassign 477304 grub
fixed 477304 0.97-37
thanks

Hello,

> From: Nick Hastings [mailto:hastings at hep.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp]


> Interesting but not related to this bug.

Yes, I just tried to reproduce it and as you can see on a fresh install with sid version of grub-legacy
there's no problem.


> This is *not* what the bug is about. The bug is about what happens in
> the case where grub *is* using /boot/boot/grub/. Please read the bug
> report again.

Well I can't remember ever having a /boot/boot, the time I used grub-legacy.
But ok that's long ago and I think I didn't use a seperate /boot at that time.
This bug probable belongs more to grub-legacy then grub-common which only contains grub-probe and grub-mkimage
I don't think the problem is grub-probe, it's more how it's called from grub-legacy scripts

I don't bother to read grub-legacy's bug reports, if this wasn't reassigned to grub-common I would have never saw it :)

> If you really want to reporoduce the bug the same way I did, you need
> to
> start by installing woody...

Ah thanks for telling.
So the problem only happens if your system started with woody or maybe before that?
But everyone who started with sarge doestn't have this problem?



> Anyway it seems that the bug is indeed reproducable and better news it
> is fixed in grub 0.97-41.

 
Ok I just checked the changelogs between -36 (you reported against) and -41
In -37

   * update-grub/grub-install: Pass --device-map to grub-probe.  Thanks
     segmentation at ntlworld.com.  (Closes: #476833)

Now I now why I didn't found anything useful in 0.97-41 why this /boot/boot could be a problem for grub-probe :)
So clearly this bug belongs to package grub and not grub-common and more important
it's already fixed.
Hurray why all this trouble if it's fixed :)

I hope that reassign and fixed 0.97-37 is really correct now.
I leave it up to you and Robert if this bug report still isn't correctly handled by me :)

Thanks for replying