I had the same issue. I use reiserfs too. > With reiserfs you can mount the filesystem with notail option Indeed, adding "-o notail" after "mount" in the command fixes it. See also the note about the notail option in the man page of mount.
But the following pages (at least) do not mention it : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD I think they should. But (again) they are difficult to edit. -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs