Bug#187135: marked as done (grub-installer: Fails to install grub)
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Subject: grub-installer: Fail if /boot/ is separate partition
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Package: grub-installer
Version: 0.0.7
Severity: important
When trying to install grub using grub-installer on a hard drive with
the following partitioning, it fails.
/dev/sda1 / ext2
/dev/sda6 /boot ext2
/dev/sda7 /home ext2
This is the error message from grub-installer:
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-installer "(hd0)"' failed.
grub-installer's postinst exited with status 256
The content of /target/etc/fstab looks sane, so I think grub-installer
should be able to extract the proper device name by using it.
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Subject: grub-installer problems should be fixed now
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The problems in install-grub should be fixed in version 0.19, with the
code to update /target/etc/mtab.
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