Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 22:45 -0800 schrieb Colin McCabe: > Hi all, > > I have an ext2 partition and grub-legacy is unable to read any of the > files on it. I created another partition and formatted it with ext3, > and grub had no problems. > > I understand that grub-legacy is in "bugfix only" mode right now. But > this does seem like it could be a bug.
It is not any more bugfix only but totally discontinued now. > I am using fedora core 11. It comes with kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE. > I have tried using the grub that ships with Fedora Core 11 and also > the grub-0.97.tar.gz from upstream, but with the same results. > Actually, there was one difference-- the grub from upstream was unable > to read the ext3 partition either! > > Here's a sample of the error message: > > ================================= > grub> root (hd0,1) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> cat (hd0,1)/grub.conf > > Error 2: Bad file or directory type > ================================= > > Anyway. I thought I would mention this. > Use GRUB 2, it won't have this problem. Debian/Ubuntu's GRUB Legacy shouldn't have this problem either. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
