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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 22:45 -0800 schrieb Colin McCabe:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.

It is not any more bugfix only but totally discontinued now.

> 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
> =================================
> 
> Anyway. I thought I would mention this.
> 

Use GRUB 2, it won't have this problem.
Debian/Ubuntu's GRUB Legacy shouldn't have this problem either.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer