loop device doesn't supported by grub-install

loop device doesn't supported by grub-install

[Dmitriy Blinov]

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.


My problem resolved by using low-level utilities grub-mkimage and grub-setup.

Re: loop device doesn't supported by grub-install

[Pavel Roskin]

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