Bug#601974: regression: grub-probe can not find /dev/xvda1 (block device inside XEN)

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 11/17/2010 05:28 PM, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> 2010-11-17 17:07 keltezéssel, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko írta:
>   
>>   
>>   
>> Hmm looks like Debian lags behind more than I thought. The version in
>> question is upstream trunk available as bzr checkout from
>> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/
>> Perhaps it needs no patching at all. Could you test?
>>     
> Because of various reasons, I am using grub-legacy, not grub2.
> Again, for various reasons, I still need grub-common from grub2.
>
> So, my current installation is:
>
> grub-common 1.98+20100804
> grub-legacy 0.97-63
>
> As far as I understand, this is perfectly valid and supported combination,
> so I have no intention to change this.
>
> Now, the upstream source (which I have checked out with bzr) is not
> Debianized,
> and I am not familiar with the grub build system, so I am not able to build
> and install grub-common only, without messing up my (somewhat fragile)
> configuration.
>
> So, the short answer is that no, I can not test the upstream source without
> your help.  If you can help me get a Debianized version of it, than I
> can do it.
>   
You don't have to actually install it. You can test grub-probe without
installing:
bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/
cd grub
./autogen.sh
make
sudo ./grub-probe -t fs -v /
> Thank you.
>
>      Kristof
>
>
>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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