Re: [Bug 464743] [NEW] error: sparse file not allowed

2009-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
Odd - we didn't see this in any of our pre-release testing (which included quite a number of from-scratch installations and upgrades, of course). What filesystem type are you using for /boot? -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 464743] [NEW] error: sparse file not allowed

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin Rogers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-pc I have just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.10 and thought I would try to switch to Grub2. I followed the instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 and the installation did not show any errors. The version of grub-pc that was instal