Bug#491745: Bug#492862: grub-installer: Fails on virtio disks

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Tue Jul 29 21:59:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:53:46PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> 
> grub-installer currently fails on virtio disks (/dev/vd[a-z]) as grub
> does not list virtio disks in device.map.

Does this address the problem?

grub (0.97-42) unstable; urgency=high
  [...]
  * patches/use_grub-probe_in_grub-install.diff: Use grub-mkdevicemap when
    device.map needs to be regenerated (this brings in Virtio support, and
    probably others).
    (Closes: #491745)

(pending unblock)

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