Bug#627587: grub-pc: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'.

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:19:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:01PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'.
> 
> Looks like #621738, which only affects people without initrds

Matched my setup.

> (I'm not
> sure if that's a sufficient condition, but I gather it's a necessary
> condition).  Do you have the most recent udev package installed?

I did not, and it works after an udev upgrade.

It seems that has to be expressed through a Conflicts on older udev 
versions?

> Colin Watson

cu
Adrian

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