On Friday 6 May, 2011 07:17:00 you wrote: > Hm. Just do cp /bin/true /usr/sbin/grub-probe Yikes, it came up with an ncurses screen saying: GRUB failed to install to the following devices: â â â â /dev/sda â â â â Do you want to continue anyway? If you do, your computer may not start up properly. â â â â Writing GRUB to boot device failed - continue? â â â â <Yes> <No> â â Say No and another ncurses screen saying: The grub-pc package is being upgraded. This menu allows you to select which devices â â you'd like grub-install to be automatically run for, if any. â â â â Running grub-install automatically is recommended in most situations, to prevent the â â installed GRUB core image from getting out of sync with GRUB modules or grub.cfg. â â â â If you're unsure which drive is designated as boot drive by your BIOS, it is often a â â good idea to install GRUB to all of them. â â â â Note: it is possible to install GRUB to partition boot records as well, and some â â appropriate partitions are offered here. However, this forces GRUB to use the â â blocklist mechanism, which makes it less reliable, and therefore is not recommended. â â â â GRUB install devices: â â â â [*] /dev/sda (750156 MB; WDC_WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0) â â â â â â <Ok> So I canceled out of it, not knowing WTH. I don't understand why the newer grub still doesn't understand BTRFS? # cp /bin/true /usr/sbin/grub-probe # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_1.99~rc1-13_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 135273 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13 (using .../grub-pc_1.99~rc1-13_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement grub-pc ... Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-13) ... Auto-detection of a filesystem of failed. Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <bug-grub@xxxxxxx> ^[Auto-detection of a filesystem of failed. Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <bug-grub@xxxxxxx> Auto-detection of a filesystem of failed. Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <bug-grub@xxxxxxx> Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-2 Found Windows XP Pro on /dev/sda4 done Processing triggers for man-db ... #/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub # -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
