On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:11:04 +0200
Giel van Schijndel <m...@mortis.eu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:37:38AM +0200, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
> > As of this moment I'm burning a livedvd to try and fix this from a
> > chroot.
> 
> This, apparently, fixed it.

I believe this bug is related to some problem in glibc, which is now
fixed.

> I.e. I booted using the livedvd, then mounted the root filesystem on
> /mnt, --bind mounted /dev, /proc and /sys in /mnt, then chrooted to /mnt
> and ran "grub-install /dev/sdb".  After that, I could use GRUB again.

Unfortunately it didn't for me : apparently ext4 support in grub is 
actually broken in some way : grub-install fails here because it doesn't
identify ext4 partitions.

Which is why I'm currently booting off lilo :-| I totally volunteer to
test ext4 support in DI.

Simon

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