Bug#575076: grub-update stopped working after upgrade to grub-pc_1.98-1_amd64.deb (md device)

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:27:04PM +0300, Ramūnas Vabolis wrote:
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > Ramunas Vabolis wrote:
> > > After debian squeeze dist-upgrade one of the updated packages was grub:
> > > Preparing to replace grub-pc 1.98~20100115-1 (using .../grub-pc_1.98-1_amd64.deb) ...
> > > Unpacking replacement grub-pc ...
> > 
> > Are you sure you don't have an old version of grub-common or something from grub in /usr/local? This problem was noticed before and fixed in 1.98
> 
> The problem is/was with incorrect info on /boot/grub/device.map (automatically included in bug report).
> The real /boot/grub/device.map was not 
> > *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
> > (hd0)	/dev/sda
> > *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
> 
> But 
> (hd0)	/dev/sda
> (hd1)	/dev/sdb

I don't entirely understand your statement here "The problem is/was with
...".  Do you mean that /boot/grub/device.map was incorrect, and that
the problem resolved itself once you fixed it?

> Now before this upgrade everything worked. After this it stopped. And
> update-grub only finished when I removed "(hd0)	/dev/sda" line
> from device.map. 

... but this doesn't quite fit with the above, so I'd appreciate
clarification.

Regardless, could you please re-test with grub-pc 1.98+20100802-1 from
unstable?  We fixed some RAID problems there and it would be good to
confirm whether this fixes your problem.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]