Hello,
I am certain that there is a grave bug in GRUB.
I am able to produce this grub output on 2 different machines
(both SMP P3, Debian GNU/Linux)
Now, surely, this kind of GRUB output should really be impossible:
GRUB version 0.90 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,1)
(hd0,3)
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,3)
grub>
Sometimes, the file is there, but mostly it is not there.
Re-starting grub normally makes the file re-appear.
This is with kernel 2.4.2, and with hda2 as reiserfs, and hda4 as ext2.
the stage1 is always found on the ext2 partition, and almost never on reiserfs
partition.
Mind you: this is not a HW fault, as I can produce this on 2 machines,
with similar partition tables.
fdisk outputs:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 131 1048792+ 82 Linux swap
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda2 132 522 3140707+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 523 1246 5810616 83 Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
bram
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