On Monday 07 Apr 2008, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a system where two SATA drives are acting as software raid for > the operating system. > > Aptitude is trying to upgrade my kernel, and calling update-grub. > This seems to sucessfully work out that /dev/sda1 is the boot > partition on the first of the two disks. > > However if I manually do grub-probe it says > > grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /dev/sda1. > > > (which of course halts my kernel upgrade). > > The same system also has /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf which I > are different form factor memory reading device in the floppy slot. > > I am wondering if grub is getting mixed up with these or something. > > How can I find out why grub is complaining
I found out for some reason (probably some earlier settings of udev) /boot/grub/device.map did not list the correct devices for hd0 and hd1, refering to sdf and sdg. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
