Getting error "No suitable drive was found in the generated device map"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On attempting to setup a new boot drive on VM, that will boot from newly added drive from other storage domain get the following error:
[root@XXX ~]# grub-install --recheck /dev/vdx
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
No suitable drive was found in the generated device map.
Reverting to backed up copy.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • VMware

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