Package: grub-pc
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Hello,
on linux systems with udev, grub2 doesn't work at all, error message is
error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/...
A partial fix can be found at http://darac.livejournal.com/220952.html
But ... util/biosdisk.c has another issue with detecting udev. The
routine has_devfs searchs for /dev/.devfsd, which cames from deprecated
devfs. Enclosed is a synthetic patch, I compiled and ran it fine on my
machine.
Best regards
Pascal Dupuis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=fr_BE, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
--- util/biosdisk.oirg 2007-11-09 13:57:13.000000000 +0100
+++ util/biosdisk.c 2007-11-09 14:39:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@
{
struct stat st;
- dev_devfsd_exists = stat ("/dev/.devfsd", &st) == 0;
+ dev_devfsd_exists = stat ("/dev/.devfsd", &st) == 0
+ || stat("/dev/.udev", &st) == 0;
}
return dev_devfsd_exists;
@@ -609,7 +610,7 @@
if (have_devfs ())
{
/* If this is an IDE disk. */
- if (strncmp ("/dev/ide/", p, 9) == 0)
+ if (strncmp ("ide/", p, 4) == 0)
{
p = strstr (p, "part");
if (p)
@@ -619,7 +620,7 @@
}
/* If this is a SCSI disk. */
- if (strncmp ("/dev/scsi/", p, 10) == 0)
+ if (strncmp ("scsi/", p, 5) == 0)
{
p = strstr (p, "part");
if (p)
