Re: Upgrade errors

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

sidhu1f <address@hidden> skribis:

> Installing for i386-pc platform.
> /gnu/store/nrv2v67k7r6s8pr7fl97hjp649idiiqn-grub-2.02/sbin/grub-install:
> error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sda; safety check
> can't be performed.
>
> The services not restarting error seems similar to bug#30706 which at
> least in one person was able to resolve by rebooting
> (https://debbugs.gnu.org/db/30/30706.html). Rebooting doesn't help in
> my case.

[...]

>   (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>                 (bootloader grub-bootloader)
>                 (target "/dev/sda1")))

Here ‘target’ specifies a partition instead of a disk, which may well be
the issue.

Did you mean “/dev/sda” instead?

HTH,
Ludo’.