From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: loop device doesn't supported by grub-install
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232040995.16182.16.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496EE550.4080807@mns.spb.ru>
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:27 +0300, Dmitriy Blinov wrote:
> Hi all!
> I tried to install grub2 on the image mounted via loop device
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2008-12/msg00009.html).
> And it turned out to be impossible with standard grub-install utility.
>
>
> The reason is
>
> grub-probe error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/loop2
>
>
> This error occurs then grub tries to define drive by device name
> parsing. See file: biosdisk.c function: get_os_disk.
> Only scsi and ide disks supported by this function.
Please try the current code from the subversion repository.
get_os_disk() doesn't exist in the code anymore.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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2009-01-15 7:27 loop device doesn't supported by grub-install Dmitriy Blinov
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