Hello!
Have the same problem.
Running Debian Squeeze 64bit on a Xen VPS.
As follows, can't upgrade kernel with apt-get.
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Workaround
Found the following steps to at least allow a kernel upgrade:
(Assuming grub-probe complains about /dev/xvda1)
Run:
$ mknod /dev/xvdb b 202 0
(Assuming there's no already existing device named xvdb, xvdb1 or xvdb2 etc.)
Edit /boot/grub/devices.map to look like:
(hd0) /dev/xvdb
In /usr/sbin/grub-update find:
find_device ()
{
if ! test -e ${device_map} ; then
echo quit | grub --batch --no-floppy
--device-map=${device_map} > /dev/null
fi
grub-probe --device-map=${device_map} -t device $1 2> /dev/null
}
..and comment out one line and add one line as follows:
find_device ()
{
if ! test -e ${device_map} ; then
echo quit | grub --batch --no-floppy
--device-map=${device_map} > /dev/null
fi
#grub-probe --device-map=${device_map} -t device $1 2> /dev/null
echo /dev/xvdb
}
Then run:
$ apt-get upgrade
..assuming this attempts to upgrade the kernel.
If successfull edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with:
$ sed -i "s/xvdb/xvda1/g" /boot/grub/menu.lst
Perhaps also revert the edit in /usr/sbin/grup-update for good measure.
Reboot.
Worked for me.
(Workaround originally found at
http://www.sysadmintalk.net/forums/Thread-PyGrub-grub-probe-can-t-find-drive-for-dev-xvda1-error-Debian-Squeeze
, although that didn't work for me without some slight modifications, included
above.)
BR
/HF
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