Bug#612128: [kfreebsd] grub-pc: fails to configure (camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed)

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:12:00AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Following the conditioned response, I say "yes".  That reveals the
> console, which says:
> 
> 	Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-1+b3) ...
> 	camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed
> 	cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory
> 	cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel
> 	cam_lookup_pass: or ad0 doesn't exist
> [same 4 lines repeated]
> 	expr: non-integer argument
> [same 4 lines repeated 3 times]
> 	expr: non-integer argument
> [same 4 lines repeated]

I'll ignore camcontrol errors a little more explicitly to reduce some of
the errors, but I would appreciate a FreeBSD expert telling me how to
get the capacity of IDE devices.  I don't think that's the core of this
bug though.

> 	/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1.  Check your device.map.
> 	Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/ad0s1 failed.
> 	Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <bug-grub at gnu.org>

You didn't include the output of this command as requested.  Could you
please send it to me?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]