Is this a bug in grub2 .. i.e. should I submit a bug with the grub2 bugtracker, or should I chase this up with some LVM people ?
Cheers Cameron On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Cameron Braid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ sudo grub-install /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-hardy64 > > I thought that the install_device argument to grub-install had to be a > harddisk (to use the MBR) or a partition in which the grub image was > installed. And I thought that grub detects the abstraction based on what > /boot points to. > > Cameron > > > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Andy Goth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Cameron Braid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED],openverse.com} >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> > >
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