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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:03:30AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 28, Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't really know enough about when this bug was introduced in udev,
> > really, or whether it's always been there.  Anyway, the Breaks is in
> > Debian grub2 bzr now, for the next upload.
> I do not know what causes this bug, but I am always unhappy with
> packages forcing udev upgrades unless there is a very good reason for it
> since udev itself tends to have many versioned dependencies/breaks as
> well and this may cause a long chain of upgrades.

squeeze udev && no initrd && latest grub = FAIL

That should now be solved solved with the dependencies forcing upgrading 
udev before grub on squeeze -> wheezy upgrades.

IMHO that's a good reason and a proper solution.

> ciao,
> Marco

cu
Adrian

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