Bug#425666: grub-pc: update-grub unable to detect /usr on lvm

Bharath Ramesh krosswindz at gmail.com
Tue May 29 19:10:40 UTC 2007


This patch doesnt work. It still adds the following entry which breaks the grub.

font (lvm-usr)/share/grub/unifont.pff
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
terminal gfxterm

On 5/29/07, Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:15:38PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > severity 425666 important
> > thanks
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:32:11AM -0400, Bharath Ramesh wrote:
> > >
> > > When /usr is a separate partition on lvm update-grub creates entry for
> > > unifont.pff on the lvm partition which is not detected by grub.
> >
> > Please send the output of the following commands:
> >
> > grub-probe -v /usr
> > cat /proc/mounts
> > cat /boot/grub/device.map
> > grub-mkdevicemap -m -
> >
> > > unifont.pff
> > > should either be in grub directory of /boot
> >
> > No, that creates other problems (unifont.pff is too big for /boot/grub).
> >
> > > or update-grub shouldnt add entry
> > > to the font.
> >
> > Agreed.  I'll try to make this part fault-tollerant.
>
> Could you try the attached patch and report if it disabled unifont.pff for
> you?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Robert Millan
>
> My spam trap is honeypot at aybabtu.com.  Note: this address is only intended
> for spam harvesters.  Writing to it will get you added to my black list.
>
>




More information about the Pkg-grub-devel mailing list