can anyone confirm if this is a known bug in older version of grub which
has been fixed in newer version.
Thanks.
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> Subject: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems
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> X-Debian-PR-Package: grub
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> Package: grub
> Version: 0.5.93.1
> Severity: important
>
> Actual version of grub is unable to access newer ext2 filesystems created by the
>potato installation program.
>
> On such program, user is asked something like "Do you want to retain linux 2.0
>compatibility?" when creating a new ext2 fs.
>
> I'm not completely sure, but i believe filesystems created by saying "No" to that
>question don't work with Grub because it uses
> code similar to the one in linux 2.0.
>
> Note that i've installed a newer version from the upstream sources and it works
>properly.
>
> I'd suggest to either remove Grub from the stable distribution or, if 'testing' Grub
>works ok, move it from 'testing' to 'stable'.
>
> Regards.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 2.2
> Kernel Version: Linux aragorn 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i586
>unknown
>
> Versions of the packages grub depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.3-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii libncurses4 4.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling
>
>
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> Robert Millan Debian GNU user
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