Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 19:57 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:58:09PM +0000, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > grub (both the boot loader, and grub-probe) incorrectly identifies my > > ext3 partition as containing a fat file system. This means it can't > > boot without manual tweaking. The problem is caused by stale fat > > signatures... this is probably a common problem, as mke2fs often > > doesn't wipe old signatures. > > > > I wrote a patch. In order for a file system to be considered > > detected, dir() must not only succeed, it also must find at least one > > file or directory. This is pretty effective at ruling out misdetecting > > a filesystem based on a stale signature that wasn't wiped by mkfs. > > We already had code for this, see: > > 2009-09-05 Robert Millan <rmh.g...@aybabtu.com> > > * util/grub-probe.c (probe): Comment out buggy codepath, which > was unexpectedly enabled by Colin Watson's 2009-09-02 fix. This > should be re-enabled after 1.97.
The problem with this (well not the problem why this was reverted) is that would just abort with an error if grub-probe detects the wrong filesystem. Ok would still be better then as currently embeding the wrong fs module to core.img -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
