Bug#495949: grub-common: grub-probe segfaults

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 25.07.2009, 08:43 +0200 schrieb Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh):
> Hi Felix,
> 
> Le 24/07/2009 22:52:42, Felix Zielcke a écrit :
> 
> >
> >Please test if the attached patch solves it.
> >
> 
> No more segfault now but the following messages:
> [jean-luc at tangerine] % sudo grub-install /dev/md0                       
> ~
> grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk.  
> This is a BAD idea.
> grub-setup: error: Embedding is not possible, but this is required when 
> the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.
> 

That patch is now commited upstream so good that this is now fixed.
[jean-luc at tangerine] % sudo grub-install /dev/md0
You can't install to /dev/md0, either use grub-install '(md0)' or the
old way with grub-install /dev/sda etc.
That should work.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer