Bug#552056: Unable to upgrade grub-pc to 1.97~beta4-1: grub-probe can't find a device for /

[Felix Zielcke]

forcemerge 550704 552056
thanks
Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 07:51 -0700 schrieb Daniel Burrows:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:36:02AM +0200, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> was heard to say:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 20:06 -0700 schrieb Daniel Burrows:
> > Is your /dev/mapper/emurlahn-root a symlink to some /dev/dm-X device?
> > If so you need to run `update-initramfs -c -t -k all' and if you don't
> > want to reboot also `echo change > /sys/block/dm-X/uevent'
> > Replace X of course with the right number.
> 
>   That seems to have done the trick.  Was this documented somewhere
> that I should have seen?
> 

It's only documented in already closed bug reports.
The new upstream release of dmsetup changed the /dev/mapper/ devices to
symlinks, which luckly the Debian maintainer changed back to the old
behaviour for us.
But now he wants to remove his workaround for our problem, so I just
merge your bug with that instead of closing it.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer