Bug#584595: grub-pc: package upgrade fails with "/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:29:17AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> When upgrading the package with the current version, I got the following:
> Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ...
> Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100602-2) ...
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
[...]
> *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
> /dev/mapper/root / ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
> *********************** END /proc/mounts
> 
> *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
> (hd0)	/dev/sda
> (hd1)	/dev/sdb
> *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

Does this device.map match the devices you actually have?  In
particular, check that they aren't /dev/hda and /dev/hdb instead.

Please run 'sudo sh -x /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig' and post the output.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]