Bug#475718: update-grub fails; grub-probe cannot find device -- disk device is in device.map

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:21:58PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Saturday 12 April 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:47:05AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > > However, with both grub 0.97-36 and grub 0.97-32 running
> > > grub-probe manually to detect /dev/hde2 seems to fail
> > > (identical output from both):
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > anon7# grub-probe -d /dev/hde2 -v
> >
> > Please try with -vv
> >
> > Thanks
> 
>    Okay, it's attached.  Apparently grub-probe is finding an Apple partition 
> map on the first drive; we do have a few Apple machines here and there is a 
> small chance that at one time this disk was in an Apple.  The only reliable 
> way I've found of removing Apple partitions is to use 'wipe' on them, 
> although I don't know if that was done on this disk.  I have a duplicate of 
> the same make + size that I can use to back this disk up with if something 
> risky needs to be done to try to get rid of the Apple map if there is one.  
> If you know of a better or less intrusive way of removing Apple maps, I'd 
> like to know.

Or maybe we can make grub-probe smarter.  But before we get into this, can
you confirm that disabling apple support fixes your problem?

Remove partmap/apple.c from grub_probe_SOURCES in common.rmk, then run
./autogen.sh to propagate your change to common.mk and rebuild.

Thank you

-- 
Robert Millan

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