From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QVaPT-0008G1-MN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:28:19 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QVaPQ-0008Fb-Sn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:28:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QVaPP-0005vp-BC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:28:16 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:51750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QVaPP-0005vj-3W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:28:15 -0400 Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so3429800gxk.0 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:28:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bd3VhWY1zDtszMChSHS/5Au/XfryrouAQGgTEjK7Rwk=; b=v1f0DLoArBzVFc/1qu5pXzSguwX+Qcz9ugb/lH247gfJawVry3grJ31Q6P4AOmw0Se ILBhrB3kABWG2EtoLvNl1dP3t3SASecdU4ykB1hwchHgo2cyDaXv2uSP/u8mUE+Um0a2 m6DuDzi7WzTj+3LSKI1HT83z2Ifx4C2WUhaU0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hovWpomVxhDkCa1H9H+RXbhAu1YUpQwsRcO3QLajHPlyqgzM6JyxVGNMO8IaX83mbv x0J2fgIjF1bE/OffR5m6IfL3PQWuxEONDmFLQ9Qv1dWgy2EVb4NA/JgJsdLY08eVoSM2 o77pREU+XWiEZmC23+Vc9atDYaRJbaY8Bt52M= Received: by 10.91.164.25 with SMTP id r25mr4757583ago.167.1307845694379; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-72-181-111-242.satx.res.rr.com [72.181.111.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j5sm4184045ani.5.2011.06.11.19.28.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:28:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF4243D.4050108@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:28:13 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: grub 1.99 configuration Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 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 02:28:18 -0000 I'm trying to manually run grub-mkconfig to establish grub-1.99 installation instructions for Linux From Scratch. I am getting: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root' Doing some investigating grub-mkconfig is running: /usr/sbin/grub-probe --target=device / Drilling down, grub-probe is doing: device_name = grub_guess_root_device (path); Which in turn is doing: grub_find_root_device_from_mountinfo( "/", NULL ); This is reading /proc/self/mountinfo. The problem here is that this file does not give the device, but specifies /dev/root: 13 1 8:15 / / rw,relatime - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue,barrier=0,data=writeback The kernel is 2.6.39.1, but 2.6.37 seems to give the same thing. grub-probe should be able to detect /dev/sda15, but fails on newer kernels. grub-probe for grub-1.98 works fine. A grep there shows no use of /proc/self/mountinfo. Suggestions? -- Bruce