Hi Ada, Ada Stevenson <adansk...@gmail.com> skribis:
> Basically, there is a compatibility issue regarding the ext4 > filesystem features that GRUB 2.06 supports and the features that > `e2fsprogs@1.47.0` enables by default when creating your ext4 > filesystem. When these features are enabled, it changes the structure > of the filesystem enough that GRUB can't recognise it properly and it > fails. > > To fix this, you will need to make sure you create your ext4 > filesystem with the following features: > `mkfs.ext4 /dev/you-partition-here -O > has_journal,ext_attr,resize_inode,dir_index,filetype,needs_recovery,extent,flex_bg,sparse_super,large_file,huge_file,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize` > > These are the features that worked for me. I had to do a lot of trial > and error, and I used `tune2fs -l` to see what features weren't > supported. The ones I can remember are the metadata_csum features, and > some other ones (they showed up as FEATURE_X when running `tune2fs` on > my Guix installation image, so I used a Gparted Live CD to get rid of > the features that weren't recognised by tune2fs). > > This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the > installation process. I think using a later version of grub would fix > this, but that hasn't happened yet. I think there's a patch to upgrade > it in `core-updates` somewhere, but I'm not sure. Just recently I noticed that our installation tests had starting failing with that exact same ‘grub-install’ error that was mentioned: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/3708453/details Cuirass says the culprit is in the 4003c60..daab3da, which indeed includes the e2fsprogs update to 1.47.0. Have you tried upgrading GRUB? I see ‘guix refresh grub’ finds a new version. If fixing the bug is what it takes, we should do that. Thanks for the investigation! Ludo’.
