Bug#478004: Acknowledgement (grub-probe finds problematic partition device)

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> On Sunday, 2008-04-27 at 13:33:45 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > Please update grub-common to 1.96+20080426-1 or later and try again.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to do that. Here is the result for 1.96+20080601-2:
> 
> # grub-probe --target=drive /boot
> grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/scsi/sdh5-dfb26000c0i2l0p1.  Check your device.map.

What kind of device is this?  Is it an alias path for one of the devices you
already have in device.map?

> # ls -l /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 /dev/scsi/sdh5-dfb26000c0i2l0p1 /dev/sdd1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 2008-06-05 18:01 /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 2008-06-05 18:01 /dev/scsi/sdh5-dfb26000c0i2l0p1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    34 2008-06-05 18:01 /dev/sdd1 -> scsi/host5/bus0/target2/lun0/part1

Ok, so /dev/sdd and /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target2/lun0/disc are the same thing.

What about the rest?

Also, how did you get those device names.  devfs?

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Robert Millan

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