Bug#499176: grub - update-grub fails silent

[Bastian Blank]

severity 499176 serious
thanks

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > grub-probe fails if /dev does not contain a sign of the current root.
> This is intentional.  update-grub needs to identify the current root in order
> to construct grub.cfg / menu.lst.  fstab was not reliable, so it's no longer
> being used.

It does not need that in any way if the file is already there and
records a proper root on its own.

Bastian

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