Re: Installing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 on lenny (grub problems)
Hello,
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:13 +1200, Simon wrote:
>
> We have a fresh install of lenny on a VM
Which VM?
> and tried to perform the initial apt-get update/upgrade but are having
> issues with dependency problems. Can someone point me in the correct
> direction here please?
> # apt-get upgrade
[..]
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26-13lenny2) ...
[..]
> Running postinst hook script update-grub.
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/sda1.
This error message is your actual problem.
What is the mount point for / and /boot ?
mount | grep " /\(boot\)\? "
What are the partitions available one the system ?
cat /proc/partitions
> grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1.
> Check your device.map.
To solve your problem, you will have to adjust the content of the
file /boot/grub/device.map
Mine looks like :
(hd0) /dev/sda
The disk device (sda) [not a partition like sda1], must be the "first"
disk device, as seen by the bios at boot time.
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
[..]
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-amd64 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64, which has
just failed to be configured. Therefore dpkg complains that
linux-image-2.6-amd64 can't be configured because it depends on a
package (linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64) that couldn't be configured.
This isn't a "dependency problem".
This is a "postinst" (post-installation) script problem, due to grub
failing to configure.
Franklin
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