On 21.07.2011 00:54, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Thu 21 Jul 2011 00:31:51 +0200, a 
> écrit :
>> On 21.07.2011 00:28, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> tags 634799 + upstream patch
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>> I've looked into it and arrived to the similar conclusion that the
>> grub.cfg.new with inode = 0 is the problem. However I think no such
>> entries should be there in the first place.
> Mmm, the following spec seems to say it is valid:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html#IFDIR-INODE
>
> A value of 0 indicate that the entry is not used.
>
Even in this case I'd recommend avoiding creating such entries since
various third-party extN software (inclusive readers for other OS) is
tailored for Linux flavour. Being nearer to this de-facto reference
would facilitate interoperation. (but as I said GRUB implementation is
to be fixed regardless)
> Samuel
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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