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grub2 package

10.04 - installer - must use grub-mk-devicemap

Bug #524994 reported by ThorstenK on 2010-02-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #527210: [lucid] grub-installer fails to open /proc/devices with message :fopen-failed : no such file or directory in alternate installer on amd64 chroot. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub2 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Lucid by ThorstenK

Bug Description

10.04 installer wont install grub
grub complains about missing map while installing 10.04

workaround
issuing grub-mk-devicemap and reinstall grub manual

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ThorstenK (thorsten-kani) wrote on 2010-02-21:

PS: I had a complicated dev/sda setup at this time:

hd0/part1 win ntfs
hd0/part2 and3 empty (was another distro)
hd0/part3 ext
hd0/part4 windows userdata ntfs
hd0/part5 linux /
hd0/part6 swap

(created by automatical partitionig by the installer)
hope that helps :)

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MrGrub2 (mrgrub2) wrote on 2010-02-23:

Syslog of installation Edit (568.7 KiB, text/plain)

Can confirm this bug for 10.04 Alternate install on Logical Volume. It's a grub-installer error.

If you "chroot" into /target directory and run grub-mkdevicemap you can go back to the grub installer, restart grub installation and the installer will finish correctly. Without the device.map the installer does fail.

The syslog is attached.

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote on 2010-02-27:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in grub2.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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ubuntu → grub2 (Ubuntu)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2010-11-25:

I think this was fixed as bug 527210, by bind-mounting /proc and /sys into /target during installation (the symptoms will have varied slightly depending on the type of device being installed to, though). It shouldn't be a problem nowadays.