Bug#495909: (grub) pre-approval for #495909

[Luk Claes]

Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please would you pre-approve fixing #495909 ?  It is an annoying (but
> otherwise harmless) collateral result of:
> 
>   * Handle errors in RAID/LVM scan routine (rather than letting the upper
>     layer cope with them).  (Closes: #494501, #495049)
>     - debian/patches/00_raid_lvm_error_handling.diff: Fix the actual problem.
>     - debian/patches/00_grub_print_error.diff: Fix a bug exposed by
>       00_raid_lvm_error_handling.diff.
> 
> from 1.96+20080724-8.
> 
> Which was a correct change from grub2 POV, since these errors had to be
> printed instead of silenced;  however for grub (legacy) it's not, since
> some of these errors have no meaning there (as Martin correctly spotted).
> 
> My fix (only for grub, not grub2) would be to simply send grub-probe stderr
> output to /dev/null.  It's no great loss, and I think it's the simplest &
> most suitable solution for lenny.

ok, please upload.

Cheers

Luk