URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36640>
Summary: Please make grub-probe support symlinks
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: hartwork
Submitted on: Tue 12 Jun 2012 04:21:36 PM GMT
Category: None
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: Bazaar - trunk
Reproducibility: None
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Related to bug #36639 in a way.
Please make grub-probe support symlinks. The shell session below demonstrates
the current unpleasant behaviors of GRUB 2.00~beta6.
# ls -al /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jun 12 17:17 /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK -> loop7
# cat /tmp/tmp.IDdNMT35bf/boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/loop7
(hd0) /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK
# grub-probe --device-map=/tmp/tmp.IDdNMT35bf/boot/grub/device.map
--target=drive --device /dev/loop7
(hd0)
# grub-probe --device-map=/tmp/tmp.IDdNMT35bf/boot/grub/device.map
--target=drive --device /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK.
Check your device.map.
# grub-probe --device-map= --target=drive --device /dev/loop7
(hostdisk//dev/loop7)
# grub-probe --device-map= --target=drive --device /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK.
Check your device.map.
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