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

[Jason Thomas]

okay, You got the date wrong in the Changelog.

Stephane, so thats why I thought a fix had been added a couple of months
ago. So the fix should be in the current debian package if that helps
your testing.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> 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.