reiserfs support is bugged!

[Bram Stolk]

Hello,

I am certain that there is a grave bug in GRUB.
I am able to produce this grub output on 2 different machines
(both SMP P3, Debian GNU/Linux)

Now, surely, this kind of GRUB output should really be impossible:


    GRUB  version 0.90  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
 (hd0,1)
 (hd0,3)

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
 (hd0,3)

grub>



Sometimes, the file is there, but mostly it is not there.
Re-starting grub normally makes the file re-appear.

This is with kernel 2.4.2, and with hda2 as reiserfs, and hda4 as ext2.
the stage1 is always found on the ext2 partition, and almost never on reiserfs
partition.

Mind you: this is not a HW fault, as I can produce this on 2 machines,
with similar partition tables.

fdisk outputs:


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1       131   1048792+  82  Linux swap
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda2           132       522   3140707+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4           523      1246   5810616   83  Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)


   bram


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