Bug#586320: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +0200, Xavier Claude wrote:
> Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 14:07:07, Colin Watson a écrit :
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:54:31PM +0200, Xavier Claude wrote:
> > > I'm on Debian/Sid when I try to install grub-pc instead of grub-legacy, the following errors appear:
> > > 
> > > Paramétrage de grub-common (1.98+20100614-2) ...
> > > Paramétrage de grub-pc (1.98+20100614-2) ...
> > > Generating core.img
> > > /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
> > > Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
> > > Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
> > 
> > Please run:
> > 
> >   grub-probe -t drive /boot/grub
> 
> Here is the output:
> 
> xavier-laptop:~# grub-probe -t drive /boot/grub
> (hd0,msdos2,msdos1)

Whoa, that's odd.  What do these commands say:

  fdisk -l /dev/sda
  parted -s /dev/sda print

> + /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=device /boot/grub
> + grub_device=/dev/sda4
> + test -f /boot/grub/grubenv
> + /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs --device /dev/sda4
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.

And:

  grub-probe -vvv --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs --device /dev/sda4

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]