After cherry-picking the relevant patch from Debian (unrelated to the above comment - sorry, of course this is grub not grub2), I now get:
# grub-install --no-floppy /dev/xvda You shouldn't call /sbin/grub-install. Please call /usr/sbin/grub-install instead! Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. expr: non-numeric argument expr: non-numeric argument Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. I think the groot bit would better be fixed in update-grub. It already has a case statement for whether to convert devices to UUIDs for use as GRUB drives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720558 Title: Ubuntu 10.04 currently requires groot= workaround with pvgrub To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/720558/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
