update-grub

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:25 PM, James Devine <fxmulder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James Devine <fxmulder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to run update-grub and I am running into the following issue:
>>
>> root at backup1:/home/jdevine> update-grub
>> Generating grub.cfg ...
>> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-35-generic
>> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-35-generic
>> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic
>> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic
>> Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
>> grub-probe: error: out of disk.
>> done
>>
>> root at backup1:/home/jdevine> df -hi
>> Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda3        8.1M  100K  8.0M    2% /
>> udev             3.0M   655  3.0M    1% /dev
>> tmpfs            3.0M   488  3.0M    1% /run
>> none             3.0M     6  3.0M    1% /run/lock
>> none             3.0M     1  3.0M    1% /run/shm
>> grub-mount       8.1M  100K  8.0M    2% /var/lib/os-prober/mount
>> root at backup1:/home/jdevine> df -h
>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda3       128G  4.4G  117G   4% /
>> udev             12G   12K   12G   1% /dev
>> tmpfs           4.8G  308K  4.8G   1% /run
>> none            5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
>> none             12G     0   12G   0% /run/shm
>> grub-mount      128G  4.4G  117G   4% /var/lib/os-prober/mount
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't appear to be out of disk anywhere so I am not sure what the
>> problem is here, any suggestions on where to look?
>
> think I figured it out, it was having problems mounting one of my
> partitions, mounting it manually seems to work

Strange, neither grub-mkconfig nor grub-probe need a partition to be
mounted in order to operate but if it now works...