[Bug 1069856] Re: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for . Check your device.map.

[Andreas Heinig]

For me the suggested command sequence (purge + install) don't fix the
problem.

#> update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
cat: /video.lst: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of .
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.

I have a software raid as boot partition.

#> blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="45aa82a9-5fc2-6eae-8795-1fcf28759b4f" UUID_SUB="ac14b6d9-8c9c-478d-79d8-39b942b29b48" LABEL="ubuntu:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="235bd0a9-005a-c373-6d65-97a6c29d2e13" UUID_SUB="81f0c4d9-5d46-f47b-2a72-71f5382a78ac" LABEL="ubuntu:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="45aa82a9-5fc2-6eae-8795-1fcf28759b4f" UUID_SUB="820d518d-0cce-692a-e01c-62e8b85fc696" LABEL="ubuntu:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" 
/dev/sdb2: UUID="235bd0a9-005a-c373-6d65-97a6c29d2e13" UUID_SUB="6fc7a785-c04c-bd9d-97f0-6b77922a2e51" LABEL="ubuntu:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member" 
/dev/sdc1: UUID="45aa82a9-5fc2-6eae-8795-1fcf28759b4f" UUID_SUB="ac00f434-005a-fc22-4d48-c115e4bd6273" LABEL="ubuntu:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" 
/dev/sdc2: UUID="235bd0a9-005a-c373-6d65-97a6c29d2e13" UUID_SUB="c17bc39d-c898-e12e-cace-de0a71ad4603" LABEL="ubuntu:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member" 
/dev/md0: LABEL="TUSH_BOOT" UUID="a2c9766f-4a3c-41d5-8eaf-f55518653820" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/md1: UUID="6YlTj9-9lt3-rJOR-x8j3-jXSe-aDpW-rEWBwq" TYPE="LVM2_member"
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Title:
  error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  i have STRIPE in bios (fake RAID0). was working fine on 12.04.
  but, during upgrade to 12.10 ... here is output.

  $ sudo update-grub
  Generating grub.cfg ...
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-33-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-33-generic
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-32-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for .  Check your device.map.
  Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
  grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/mapper/isw_cijbaaefjb_Volume0p1.  Check your device.map.
  grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/mapper/isw_cijbaaefjb_Volume0p2.  Check your device.map.
  grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/mapper/isw_cijbaaefjb_Volume1p1.  Check your device.map.
  done

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: grub-pc 2.00-7ubuntu11
  Uname: Linux 3.0.24-std251-amd64 x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_memcpy async_tx raid1 raid0 multipath linear usb_storage nouveau ttm drm_kms_helper drm xhci_hcd r8169 mii i2c_algo_bit i2c_core mxm_wmi video wmi
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 22 17:50:33 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-22 (0 days ago)

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