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has caused the Debian Bug report #601974,
regarding regression: grub-probe can not find /dev/xvda1 (block device inside
XEN)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-7
Severity: important
Hi, I am running a bunch of XEN virtual domains,
in which I have grub installed.
(I use pygrub to boot them from dom0, but that's irrelevant now.)
In the xen configuration, I have different block devices assigned for
the partitions, like this:
disk = [
'phy:safe2/intranet,hda1,w',
'phy:safe2/intranet_swap,hda2,w',
]
So, in the virtual domain, the block devices appear like this;
real /dev/safe2/intranet -> virtual /dev/xvda1
real /dev/safe2/intranet_swap -> virtual /dev/xvda2
Note there is no /dev/xvda device as such.
This works all right for normal disk IO.
In the grub config, I have
root (hd0)
kernel .... root=/dev/xvda1
With grub-common from stable, I can make grub work
by manually creating a (fake) xvda device: mknod /dev/xvda b 202 0
devices.map looks like this:
(hd0) /dev/xvda
after this, update-grub works properly.
Now if I upgrade to grub-common from unstable, this starts to fail.
Whatever I do, it won't work.
How do I fix that?
Thank you for your help:
Kristof Csillag
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=UTF-8)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to hu_HU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 5lenny7 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.14.29+b1 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2+lenny4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn os-prober <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn grub-emu <none> (no description available)
pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available)
pn xorriso <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.99-1
Hi,
According to upstream ChangeLog (and to source code in
grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c), this problem was solved with GRUB 1.99
release.
--
Robert Millan
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