Xavier schrieb: > That's funny, my first feeling when I read about that issue was : > Why the hell did those developers put such stupid limitation? :) > (or: did not remove) > > Well, my first result on google looks interesting : > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20080130.140155.866d3ad1.en.html > > There is a patch attached, and the following information : >> >> Even though I understand that grub(-legacy) is in feature freeze (grub2 >> does already support booting from ext3 partitions with 256 byte >> inodes), I >> personally would prefer an update to grub 0.97, given that this issue >> leaves the (newly installed/ moved) system unbootable without any chance >> for manual interaction (grub neither installs and dies without any >> message) >> and that the patch seems to be of reasonable size, while grub2 doesn't >> seem >> to be ready for mass deployment.
I checked the patch into CVS. If it is okay, I can rebuild grub with this patch and check it into testing. Opinions?
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