Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: >> On my PC I have many different partitions. With Etch, I've never had >> problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and >> not to the master boot record. >> >> Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought from an >> official Debian vendor, and: if I install the Grub boot loader to the mbr, >> everything seems all right; instead, if I install the Grub boot loader to a >> partition, then I can't boot into the system and get an >> >> Error 2: Bad file or directory type >> >> Did anyone experience the same problem, why does it occur and how to solve >> it? > > > > To say it more simply, the problem is that I can't boot into my Lenny > partition from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the > mbr.
It seems that this is the grub vs inode problem discussed in the following www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/6480/1/ caused by new distributions using ext3 filesystems with 256 byte inodes grub is not able to access these partitions Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
