Bug#562672: grub-common: Packages depending on grub can't be used in live-helper: "cannot find a device for /"

[Tony Houghton]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98~20091222-1
Severity: normal


If live-helper tries to install a package which uses grub (eg memtest86,
dektop-base) it fails:

/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.0.0            Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.5.5         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.17-8           GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-2 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.35       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)

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