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grub-installer package

  1. Bug #720558
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 720558

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

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.