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

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 11/17/2010 06:11 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? If upstream works
>> it will be more of a question of propagating relevant upstream commit.
>>   
>>     
> Compiling the trunk version was not smooth: it failed on a warning
> because of compiler directives. Needed to override this manually.
>
>   
What's the exact warning? I'd like to fix it.
> ./grub-probe: info: /dev/xvda1 starts from 0.
> ./grub-probe: info: opening the device /dev/xvda.
> ./grub-probe: warn: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition
> device /dev/xvda1.
> ./grub-probe: info: opening /dev/xvda1.
> ./grub-probe: info: the size of /dev/xvda1 is 20971520.
> ext2
>
> So, yes, trunk version works.
>
>   
Ok, I discarded the patch as useless then and pinged Colin Watson about
propagating needed commits.
> Best wishes:
>
>     Kristof
>
>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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