Bug#588715: grub-probe fails to find a device for /
Adam C. Emerson
azure at azureprime.com
Sun Jul 11 14:19:05 UTC 2010
Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98-1
Severity: normal
First noticed within the past week while trying to upgrade memtest86+,
the grub-probe program complains:
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).
It gives the same error when invoked directly from the command line.
/dev is, in fact, mounted. The output of mount shows:
/dev/mapper/c--68--40--176--142-root on / type ext4 (rw,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro)
Verifying that with file gives:
/dev/mapper/c--68--40--176--142-root: symbolic link to `../dm-0'
And verifying that gives:
/dev/dm-0: block special
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 5.7 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.18-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii os-prober 1.38 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)
-- no debconf information
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