On 01/28/2011 04:21 PM, scal...@scyld.sky wrote: > The setup of new linux kernels compiled with [m] option on most modules > results in dramatically big initrd files (65-145MB). Grub2 fails to read > such a big files from at least ext3 partitions and linux kernel panics > because of lack of modules. Quick analysis and debug of grub2 code has > shown that function grub_fshelp_read_file in file [fs/fshelp.c] returns > (-1) because of > blknr = get_block (node, i); > sets grub_errno = 24 while trying to resolve disk block number from file > block number. > The temporary workaround is to format a partition with /boot with option > -b 4096 which increases block size and lower the number of blocks. > > This is probably because of triple indirect. Triple indirrect support went in relatively recently, please upgrade (this should be first step before reporting any bug for this matter)
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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