Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4 [RESOLVED]

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2017, at 4:40 AM, Theodore Ts'o <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 08:16:39PM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote:
> >> Sysllinux chain-loading is not a factor (GRUB 2.00 still fails to
> >> boot w/o it).  GRUB 2.02 does resolve the issue.  The command line
> >> for 2.02 required a “-p” switch which 2.00 does not.  This probably
> >> caused an uncaught and unnoticed failure during installation in my
> >> previous testing.
[...]
> > So when you say that enabling the 64-bit file system feature causes a
> > regression by causing Grub to fail to be able to read the root file
> > system, I have to respectfully disagree.  I do it all the time when I
> > reboot my kernel, and it Works For Me...
> 
> Huh ???  I indicated GRUB 2.00 stopped working with the upgrade to 1.43.4, 
> but GRUB 2.02 works fine.

Yes - I think this is to be expected since support for the 64-bit
feature was only added in 2.02.  (See the NEWS file, or commit
073b57bb8e2d688f33198f97076d01cea4455d7f.)

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden