Bug#497152: grub-common: Running postinst hook script update-grub shows errors, but no failure

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:41:35PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> forcemerge 496040 497152
> thanks
> 
> Am Samstag, den 30.08.2008, 12:21 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> 
> > Dear DDs,
> 
> Hello Paul,
> 
> > today I did
> > 
> >         $ sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
> > 
> > on an Asus EeePC 701 4G and several „errors“ were displayed I do not
> > remember having seen before. See below. But it still boots fine.
> 
> This seems to be the same problem as in #496040
> We got a few reports now about this change, that grub-probe now shows
> this error messages.
> 
> > Do I have to worry?
> 
> Just check your regenerated grub.cfg
> If hd1 /dev/sdb doestn't contain anything important from GRUB's point of
> view then no need to worry.
> Just remove it from your device.map, then the errors should be gone.

Or see if this is still a problem with 1.96+20080831-1 or later, it's
supposedly fixed there.

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