From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LNW95-0003EM-6w for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:43 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNW93-0003E9-RO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:41 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNW91-0003DY-Qd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35567 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNW91-0003DS-N5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:39 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:47711) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNW91-0006Wk-BK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:39 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 15 Jan 2009 12:36:37 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40BFA34C6D for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:49:26 -0500 (EST) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <496EE550.4080807@mns.spb.ru> References: <496EE550.4080807@mns.spb.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:36:35 -0500 Message-Id: <1232040995.16182.16.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 (2.24.2-3.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: loop device doesn't supported by grub-install X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:36:42 -0000 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