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

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that can possibly be the command that grub-mkconfig was
running.  You need to run "sh -x /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig >/dev/null",
look for the failing grub-probe command in that output, and add the -vv
option to it.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]