Bug#708614: grub-common: Regression from 1.99: update-grub fails in Xen DomU: "warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/xvda1."

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Colin,

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:55:24AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/xvda1.
> > grub-probe: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/xvda1.
> > grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/xvda1.  Check your device.map.
> 
> Sorry I've taken so long to reply to this.  Could you figure out the
> grub-probe command here, run it with the -vv option added, and attach
> the output?

Output of version 2.00-15:

# grub-probe -vv /dev/xvda1
grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of udev.
# apt-cache policy udev
udev:
  Installed: 175-7.2
  Candidate: 175-7.2
  Version table:
     204-2 0
        110 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
 *** 175-7.2 0
        990 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        600 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        400 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

HTH.

		Regards, Axel
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