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

[Claudius Peschke]

Hello,

to solve the problem for me, i have copied a few lines from grub2 version 1.99
to the old squeeze version 1.98+20100804-14 and applied the patch
(hostdisk.diff) from Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko to it. With the
attached patch applied, the grub-probe command returns:

# grub-probe -t abstraction --device /dev/xvda1 -v
grub-probe: info: Cannot stat `/dev/xvda', skipping.
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 12582912.

and update-grub works without error.

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