[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just found another semi-critical bug, whose fix should really get
> into 0.91.
>
> It turns out that "grub-install" doesn't have any "sync" calls to make
> sure any filesystem caches are coherent with the raw devices they are
> on top of... so if your filesystem waits to write out any data from the
> copy command in the script to put the "stage1" and "stage2" in their
> final location, you're hosed.
>
> I found this because it just bit me on one of my systems running stock
> RedHat 7.2 with a large "stage2".
OK, I feel a bit sheepish...
"sync" is already being called from the grub shell, which only makes
sense... so in general the fix I posted should have been a no-op. It's
not a bug per se, just unnecessary.
But on RedHat 7.2 with the kernel update to 2.4.9-7, something is
busted to make me have to call it explicitly in the shell script.
Effectively, the "sync" call was made several times with some small
delays in-between.
OK, I'll complain about this to RedHat...
--
Erich Stefan Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.uruk.org/
"Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"
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