Bug#465365: grub-ieee1275: grub-mkdevicemap writes a device.map with "No aliases found"

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:32:28PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
> Package: grub-ieee1275
> Version: 1.96+20080210-1
> Severity: important
> 
> grub-mkdevicemap ends without a failure notice but the file writes a device.map with "No aliases found"
> [...]
> 
> *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
> (No aliases found.)	/dev/hda
> (No aliases found.)	/dev/sda
> *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

Please could you try the attached patch in combination with latest
grub-ieee1275?

This patch will make grub-mkdevicemap generate dummy entries (but this time,
unique ones).  Even if they are meaningless to OFW (they're BIOS-style,
hd0, hd1, etc), they should allow grub-probe to handle these drives internally.

Starting with 1.96+20080531-1 (now in sid), it shouldn't be a problem that
these drives don't exist in OFW, as long as you use a filesystem where UUIDs
are supported (which you do).

-- 
Robert Millan

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