From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QVjxq-00063A-Qz for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:40:26 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QVjxm-00062Z-Vf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:40:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QVjxl-00012A-7R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:40:22 -0400 Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:58544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QVjxk-000124-R4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:40:21 -0400 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QVjxi-00061p-Fa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:40:18 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QVjxh-0002TU-Dc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:40:17 +0100 Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:40:17 +0100 From: Colin Watson To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: grub 1.99 configuration Message-ID: <20110612124017.GD23533@riva.ucam.org> References: <4DF4243D.4050108@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF4243D.4050108@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 212.23.3.140 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:40:24 -0000 On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 09:28:13PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root' http://bugs.debian.org/627587 You can fix it by backporting r3318 from trunk: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr/revision/3318 The backport to 1.99 is not entirely straightforward. Here's a version that works with 1.99: http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-grub/trunk/grub/revision/2435/debian/patches/lazy_stat.patch -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]