Re: grub: doesn't load symlinks kernel images on reiserfs (big drive)

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:51, Stephane Jourdois wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:03:56PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> > Hi Stephane, me again. Just wondering if the problem may have been fixed
> > a couple of months ago.
> 
> As I said you last week, grub cannot read now *any* file, symlink or
> normal file. Even the stage1 file cannot be read, and grub cannot be
> installed. So I can't test if that bug is or is not present in recent
> versions.
> 
> I'm currently discussing with Jochen Hoenicke, who is in way to repair
> that.
> 
> It seems that he found the problem, as he sent me a path that fix the
> problem on my machine (but I'm not sure that the patch is good for
> inclusion for everyone).

The patch is in CVS now (since Tuesday). I now ignore the filesystem
version in super block because it has caused the trouble.  The filesystem
in question had old version in super block but new items.

  Jochen

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