diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d81a9a6bf..c43f8a479 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-09-26  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
+
+	* util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in (is_path_readable_by_grub): Redirect
+	errors from grub-probe to /dev/null, not stdout.
+
 2012-09-26  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder@gmail.com>
 
 	* grub-core/fs/affs.c (grub_affs_mount): Support AFFS bootblock in
diff --git a/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in b/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
index 8f21eb26d..357483983 100644
--- a/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
+++ b/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ is_path_readable_by_grub ()
 
   # ... or if we can't figure out the abstraction module, for example if
   # memberlist fails on an LVM volume group.
-  if abstractions="`"${grub_probe}" -t abstraction "$path"`" 2>&1 ; then 
+  if abstractions="`"${grub_probe}" -t abstraction "$path"`" 2> /dev/null ; then 
       :
   else
     return 1