Bug#501306: update-grub fails with raid1 boot partition

[Dan Poltawski]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:35:53AM -0400, Samat K Jain wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 October 2008 04:53:57 am Dan Poltawski wrote:
> > Just in response to this - my problem has not been caused by an upgrade - it was a clean lenny install
> > onto a new machine a few days ago.
> 
> Well, something regenerated device.map since installation. I don't think your system would boot with the device.map you've provided---grub would have ever installed properly. I believe, from what you've provided, your device.map should contain:
> 
> (hd0) /dev/sda
> (hd1) /dev/sdb
> 
> Did you try the workaround? Namely running `grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy` again?

Yes I did, this does resolve the problem and also contains the same map as
you guessed at.

I'm looking through the apt log to see if I can find anything which would
regenerate the device.map since install.


Dan
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