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and subject line Re: Bug#505137: grub-common: grub-probe returns fat for ext3
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Package: grub-common
Version: 1.96+20080724-11
Severity: important
grub-probe misdetects the root fs of one of my PCs (works fine on all others).
lisa:/# grub-probe --target=fs /
fat
lisa:/# sfdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 19452 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 19080 19081- 153268101 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 19081 19451 371 2980057+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda5 19081+ 19451 371- 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris
lisa:/# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
It looks like grub-probe runs the FAT checks before the EXT2 check and I just
happen to hit a false positive.
Hopefully 512 bytes of the partition should be enough to debug this?
sa:/# hexdump -Cn 512 /dev/sda1
00000000 eb 4a 90 00 65 6c 6c 20 38 2e 30 00 02 04 01 00 |.J..ell 8.0.....|
00000010 02 00 02 00 00 f8 4f 00 3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 |......O.?...?...|
00000020 86 39 01 00 80 00 29 09 08 d6 07 44 65 6c 6c 55 |.9....)....DellU|
00000030 74 69 6c 69 74 79 00 41 54 31 36 20 20 20 00 00 |tility.AT16 ..|
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 30 33 c0 8e d0 |...........03...|
00000050 bc 00 07 fc b9 80 00 8e d8 be 00 7c b8 00 20 8e |...........|.. .|
00000060 c0 33 ff f3 66 a5 ea 6b 00 00 20 8e d8 b8 01 02 |.3..f..k.. .....|
00000070 b9 01 00 b6 00 8a 16 24 00 bb 00 02 cd 13 0f 82 |.......$........|
00000080 e0 00 80 3e c2 03 06 74 0e c6 06 c2 03 06 b8 01 |...>...t........|
00000090 03 cd 13 0f 82 cb 00 66 0f b7 06 16 00 66 d1 e0 |.......f.....f..|
000000a0 66 40 66 03 06 1c 00 66 a3 3e 00 8b 2e 11 00 89 |[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>......|
000000b0 2e 44 00 c1 ed 04 e8 cb 00 4d 75 fa b9 0b 00 be |.D.......Mu.....|
000000c0 ea 01 8b fd f3 a6 74 0f 83 c5 20 ff 0e 44 00 75 |......t... ..D.u|
000000d0 eb be e0 01 e9 8e 00 26 8b 46 1a a3 46 00 66 a1 |.......&.F..F.f.|
000000e0 1c 00 66 40 66 a3 3e 00 c7 06 48 00 00 00 8b 2e |[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>...H.....|
000000f0 16 00 e8 8f 00 4d 75 fa c7 06 4a 00 70 00 c7 06 |.....Mu...J.p...|
00000100 48 00 00 00 66 0f b7 06 46 00 66 83 e8 02 66 0f |H...f...F.f...f.|
00000110 b6 0e 0d 00 66 f7 e1 66 0f b7 0e 16 00 66 d1 e1 |....f..f.....f..|
00000120 66 41 66 03 0e 1c 00 66 03 c1 66 0f b7 0e 11 00 |fAf....f..f.....|
00000130 66 c1 e9 04 66 03 c1 66 a3 3e 00 0f b6 2e 0d 00 |f...f..f.>......|
00000140 e8 41 00 4d 75 fa 8b 36 46 00 b8 00 30 d1 e6 73 |.A.Mu..6F...0..s|
00000150 03 05 00 10 8e c0 26 ad 3d f8 ff 73 0d a3 46 00 |......&.=..s..F.|
00000160 eb a2 be d5 01 e8 0d 00 eb fe 8a 16 24 00 33 ed |............$.3.|
00000170 ea 00 00 70 00 ac 3c 00 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd |...p..<.t.......|
00000180 10 eb f2 c3 66 a1 3e 00 66 33 d2 66 0f b7 0e 18 |....f.>.f3.f....|
00000190 00 66 f7 f1 fe c2 88 16 25 00 32 d2 66 0f b7 0e |.f......%.2.f...|
000001a0 1a 00 66 f7 f1 8a f2 8b c8 b8 01 02 c0 e5 06 0a |..f.............|
000001b0 2e 25 00 86 e9 8a 16 24 00 c4 1e 48 00 cd 13 72 |.%.....$...H...r|
000001c0 a1 66 ff 06 3e 00 81 06 48 00 00 02 75 06 81 06 |.f..>...H...u...|
000001d0 4a 00 00 10 c3 44 69 73 6b 20 65 72 72 6f 72 00 |J....Disk error.|
000001e0 4e 6f 20 6c 6f 61 64 65 72 00 44 45 4c 4c 42 49 |No loader.DELLBI|
000001f0 4f 20 42 49 4e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |O BIN...........|
00000200
Maybe the order of fs detection should be changed to look for ext2 first?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 4.0.5 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
grub-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Am Dienstag, den 25.11.2008, 18:12 +0000 schrieb Scott Ashcroft:
> I don't remember exactly how the box got installed. I'm pretty sure I just
> used an early Etch AMD64 install CD.
> The FAT that's there looks like the original Dell recovery partition.
> I've zeroed out the block and now everything works fine.
> I'm happy for the bug to be closed as it's just my machine being weird.
>
Ok closing then.
--
Felix Zielcke
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