Bug#477069: grub-common: grub-probe Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/loop/0

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 02:59:14PM -0400, Federico Grau wrote:
> Package: grub-common
> Version: 1.96+20080413-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I am using loop-aes (via loop-aes-modules-2.6.24-1-686 and
> loop-aes-utils) for an encrypted root filesystem.
> 
> However, I can not update to a new kernel (automatically) because grub
> cannot figure out which drive my encrypted partition is on.
> 
> donfede
> 
> ##########
> #
> # relevant command output
> #
> bwing:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2              73G  2.6G   67G   4% /
> tmpfs                 494M     0  494M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M  108K  9.9M   2% /dev
> tmpfs                 494M     0  494M   0% /dev/shm
> bwing:~# mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3
> (rw,loop=/dev/loop0,gpgkey=/boot/kf_root_bwing_2008-04-20.gpg,encryption=AES256)

If your /boot is encrypted, how is GRUB supposed to access it?

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