On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:13:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:09:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:05:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Do you deliberately have grub-pc/install_devices set to empty, or is > > > that accidental? > > > > That's deliberate. My /boot is an encrypted LV, and the system cannot > > boot from there. So it's useless to have grub on the hard disk. I > > have a bootable USB stick which is regularly rsynced to the encrypted > > /boot manually. I have /boot on the disk so that I can do updates of > > the system without having the stick mounted. > > > > I take care of having the USB stick bootable myself. A lot of grub's > > automatisms do handle this situation rather badly. > > In that case right now you may be doomed to occasionally have problems > like this; the core image and grub.cfg must not be too far out of sync. > I assume you're taking explicit care to run grub-install every now and > again.
Of course. The current issue happens, however, when running update-grub to update the encrypted /boot. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
