Bug#612838: grub-pc: [kfreebsd] update-grub fails on custom partinioning during installation

[Arno Töll]

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I spent some time investigating the issue. I used grub 1.99~rc1-8 from
the VCS which includes the patch you mentioned. I made some progress
investigating the issue. Using the libgeom enabled grub does not change
anything, i.e. update-grub still fails. Before (and after), set -ex gave
(relevant parts only):

root at debian:~# update-grub ; echo $?
Generating grub.cfg ...
+ prefix=/usr
+ exec_prefix=/usr
+ bindir=/usr/bin
+ libdir=/usr/lib
+ . /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
+ transform=s,x,x,
...
+ printf Loading kernel of FreeBSD %s ... 8.1-1-amd64
+ message=Loading kernel of FreeBSD 8.1-1-amd64 ...
+ cat
+ test -n
+ test -e /lib/modules/8.1-1-amd64/acpi.ko
+ test -e /lib/modules/8.1-1-amd64/opensolaris.ko
+ test -e /lib/modules/8.1-1-amd64/zfs.ko
+ test -e /boot/zfs/zpool.cache
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Problem is, there is no /boot/zfs/zpool.cache, maybe this is related to
#591820. When copying /boot/zfs/zpool.cache over from the installer
environment as Tiernan suggested update-grub works, even the older
version from 6.0.1 (I used this time for installation).

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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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