сб, 24 июн. 2017 г., 23:22 Felipe A Rodriguez <f...@illumenos.com>:
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 11:29 PM, Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> wrote: > > > Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> on Fri, 2017/06/23 15:53: > >> +grub-devel > >> > >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote: > >>> Upgrading from e2fsprogs-1.42.13 to e2fsprogs-1.43.4 causes the boot > >>> loader to fail (unknown filesystem error) on the x86_64 VM I use for > >>> initial testing. I traced the problem to changes in the e2fsprogs > >>> configuration file which now sets 64 bit flags. I tried upgrading > >>> to GRUB 2.02 but that did not resolve the problem. Reverting the > >>> changes per the patch below fixes the problem. > >> > >> Hmm, my laptop has been using a file system with the 64-bit feature > >> enabled for quite some time, and my Debian Stretch system has been > >> using Grub 2.02 to boot my system without any difficulties. > >> > >> I've done a quick check of the Debian patches and none of them seem to > >> modify Grub's ext2/ext4 file system implementation. So I don't know > >> what to tell you. Are you sure you properly reinstalled grub on the > >> boot device after you upgraded to grub 2.02? > > > > Yes. I did not upgrade the test VM directly. I replaced GRUB 2.00 with > 2.02 in my build automation which creates an installer ISO. Installation > onto the VM is also largely automated. GRUB 2.02 (and 2.00) work fine if I > revert the config file to that in 1.42.13. > Do you mean grub is unable to read some files ? Can you try, recreating it with grub-fstest? Can you upload failing image somewhere? > > To be clear: I don’t believe any of the code changes between 1.42.13 and > 1.43.4 cause this issue. The problem arises from just the changes in the > built-in default configuration file that gets installed. A distro that > uses its own custom configuration file may not encounter this issue. > > > > Grub should be fine, however syslinux still suffers issues with 64-bit > > feature. Possibly you use a chain to load syslinux first, grub second? > > Yes, my test VM is configured to chain load GRUB from Syslinux > (ISOLINUX). I don’t recall whether I tried booting directly into GRUB so I > will test that tomorrow. > > > > > > Regards, > > Felipe > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
_______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
