Bug#584199: update-grub cannot find video.lst and locales

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:13:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:09:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:05:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Do you deliberately have grub-pc/install_devices set to empty, or is
> > > that accidental?
> >
> > That's deliberate. My /boot is an encrypted LV, and the system cannot
> > boot from there. So it's useless to have grub on the hard disk. I
> > have a bootable USB stick which is regularly rsynced to the encrypted
> > /boot manually. I have /boot on the disk so that I can do updates of
> > the system without having the stick mounted.
> >
> > I take care of having the USB stick bootable myself. A lot of grub's
> > automatisms do handle this situation rather badly.
> 
> In that case right now you may be doomed to occasionally have problems
> like this; the core image and grub.cfg must not be too far out of sync.
> I assume you're taking explicit care to run grub-install every now and
> again.

Of course. The current issue happens, however, when running
update-grub to update the encrypted /boot.

Greetings
Marc

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