Re: grub-legacy can't read my ext2 partition?

[Felix Miata]

On 2009/11/15 22:45 (GMT-0800) Colin McCabe composed:

> I have an ext2 partition and grub-legacy is unable to read any of the
> files on it. I created another partition and formatted it with ext3,
> and grub had no problems.

> I understand that grub-legacy is in "bugfix only" mode right now. But
> this does seem like it could be a bug.

> I am using fedora core 11. It comes with kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.
> I have tried using the grub that ships with Fedora Core 11 and also
> the grub-0.97.tar.gz from upstream, but with the same results.
> Actually, there was one difference-- the grub from upstream was unable
> to read the ext3 partition either!

> Here's a sample of the error message:

> =================================
> grub> root (hd0,1)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

> grub> cat (hd0,1)/grub.conf

> Error 2: Bad file or directory type
> =================================

What did you use prior to Fedora 11? I suspect you may in fact still be using
that Grub rather than the one shipped with F11. Unpatched versions of Grub
Legacy cannot handle the larger inode sizes used by the mkfs versions shipped
with newer distros. Do tune2fs -l on the partitions that generate the errors
to see what the inode sizes are.
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