Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

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On Wednesday 18 May, 2011 00:50:37 Jordan Uggla wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:03 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Nobody knows why:
> > grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'
> 
> Can you post the contents of /proc/mounts and try to reproduce the
> problem with grub 1.99 final?

# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / btrfs rw,relatime,noacl 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 
rw,relatime,errors=continue,commit=5,barrier=0,data=writeback 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime,devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
/dev/sda4 /media/winxp fuseblk 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096
 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
address@hidden:/ /media/droog fuse.sshfs 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,max_read=65536 
0 0
address@hidden:/ /media/hex fuse.sshfs 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,max_read=65536 
0 0

In the current Debian Testing I do not have grub1.99 final available, only 
1.99~rc1-13.
# update-grub2
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'.
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