I noticed that grub-probe gets the list of devices to probe from the existing /boot/grub/device.map. If I removed the line from that file that mentioned /dev/fd0 (which has never existed on this system) then grub-probe no longer fails. However, I still can't get grub2 to install:
# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up grub-pc (1.95+20070507-1) ...
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7
done
Auto-detection of a partition map module failed.
Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub2:
grub2 depends on grub-pc; however:
Package grub-pc is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing grub2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-pc
grub2
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