<pre class="message">Hello,<br>i have a similar problem with grub when i try to update-grub<br>i am working in a live-system, chrooted in a bootstraped system and try to install grub:<br><br># dpkg -l | grep grub<br>ii grub 0.97-39 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)<br>
ii grub-common 1.96+20080601-2 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common<br><br># ls -l sd*<br>brw-r--r-- 1 root root 8, 0 2008-06-09 17:56 sda<br>brw-r--r-- 1 root root 8, 1 2008-06-09 17:56 sda1<br>
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 8, 16 2008-06-09 17:56 sdb<br>brw-r--r-- 1 root root 8, 17 2008-06-09 17:56 sdb1<br><br><br># mount<br>/dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,nosuid,errors=remount-ro)<br>proc on /proc type proc (rw)<br>sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)<br>
none on /proc type proc (rw)<br>proc on /proc type proc (rw)<br>none on /proc type proc (rw)<br>/dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)<br><br># cat device.map <br>(hd0) /dev/sda<br>(hd1) /dev/sdb<br><br>/boot/grub# update-grub<br>
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub<br>Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.<br>grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/.tmp.md0. Check your device.map.<br>
<br># grub-probe -t device /boot<br>/dev/.tmp.md0<br># grub-probe -t drive /boot<br>grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/.tmp.md0. Check your device.map.<br><br># cat /proc/mdstat<br>Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] <br>
md4 : active raid1 sda8[0] sdb8[1]<br> 209800768 blocks [2/2] [UU]<br> <br>md3 : active raid1 sda6[0] sdb6[1]<br> 21237824 blocks [2/2] [UU]<br> <br>md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]<br> 738880 blocks [2/2] [UU]<br>
<br>md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]<br> 248896 blocks [2/2] [UU]<br> <br>md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]<br> 48064 blocks [2/2] [UU]<br> <br>unused devices: <none><br><br><br>thanks, michael<br>
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