Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.5-1 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi
ext3 filesystems with an inode size of 256 byte cannot be read by the read-only file system code of debian's/ upstream's grub 0.97 (e2fs_stage1_5 can't be loaded). Given that e2fsprogs 1.40.5-1 has started to use 256 byte inodes on default, creating new filesystems without explicitly decreasing the inode size creates filesystems which aren't bootable by current grub versions. Fedora seems to have fixed this issue recently http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/grub/grub-support-256byte-inode.patch?view=markup which unfortunately depends on larger changes included in the following, rather monolithic, patch: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/grub/grub-fedora-9.patch?view=markup It might be preferable to revert to smaller default inode sizes until this issue is fixed in debian's grub(-legacy) packages. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-slh64-smp-5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.40.5-1 ext2 filesystem libraries ii libblkid1 1.40.5-1 block device id library ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.5-1 common error description library ii libss2 1.40.5-1 command-line interface parsing lib ii libuuid1 1.40.5-1 universally unique id library e2fsprogs recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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