From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Km9kf-0003f0-2a for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:13:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Km9kd-0003dz-BK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:13:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34727 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Km9kc-0003dL-9U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:13:02 -0400 Received: from smtp.aircanopy.net ([66.160.208.25]:45928) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Km9UH-0005OW-IH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:56:09 -0400 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223135768-7e9b01b90000-Td4drV X-Barracuda-URL: http://66.160.208.25:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from aczmr1.aircanopy.net (aczmr1.aircanopy.net [66.160.208.172]) by smtp.aircanopy.net (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 2C69E802EC4 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:56:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from aczmr1.aircanopy.net (aczmr1.aircanopy.net [66.160.208.172]) by smtp.aircanopy.net with ESMTP id pNwpnsdriN1StIDT for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:56:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aczmr1.aircanopy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247771D9CF for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:56:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Score: -2.911 Received: from aczmr1.aircanopy.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (aczmr1.aircanopy.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gJLHbI6A1grl for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:56:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from aczmb1.aircanopy.net (aczmb1.aircanopy.net [66.160.208.170]) by aczmr1.aircanopy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE01318216 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:56:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:56:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Andy Goth To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <264154299.32731223135767648.JavaMail.root@aczmb1> In-Reply-To: X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: grub2 /boot on lvm on ubuntu - incorrect magic number MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [66.160.219.98] X-Mailer: Zimbra 5.0.8_GA_2462.SLES10_64 (ZimbraWebClient - FF2.0 (Linux)/5.0.8_GA_2462.SLES10_64) X-Barracuda-Connect: aczmr1.aircanopy.net[66.160.208.172] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223135768 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Aircanopy Spam Firewall at aircanopy.net X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.1.7224 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 Subject: Re: grub2 /boot on lvm on ubuntu - incorrect magic number 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: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:13:03 -0000 "Cameron Braid" wrote: > * root partition is a lvm device (/dev/mapper/Ubuntu-hardy64) > > beast:grub2$ sudo grub-install /dev/sdd >From looking at the GRUB 1.96 sources, I get the impression that this command line should be: $ sudo grub-install /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-hardy64 in order for grub-probe to see the abstraction as GRUB_DEV_ABSTRACTION_LVM. I could be majorly wrong, and this may have changed between 1.96 and the version that Cameron is using, but... I'm just trying to figure out how GRUB works. :^) -- Andy Goth | http://andy.junkdrome.org/ unununium@{aircanopy.net,openverse.com}