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Bug#681227: [PATCH] Allow bootdev to be "dummy"



Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> (23/12/2012):
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:47:04PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > The workaround for 681227 prevents grub-installer from trying to
> > install to devices that don't exist.  This breaks installations on
> > systems that use grub-efi or grub-yeeloong, since they set the device
> > to "dummy".  This patch fixes the workaround to allow this value.
> 
> I've gone ahead and committed this.  I hope that's OK.  If you'd like
> me to revert it, let me know.
> 
> It might be a good idea to include this in the release, else grub-efi
> and grub-yeeloong won't work.

Thanks for the info and for the patch; I'll try and get Steve to make
sure EFI things work for the next release, since I've got no such
setups to perform tests on.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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