On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > One thing that could be at fault is that I had grub installed into hd0,2 > (sda3) which is an ext4 partition.
I think that this is probably the cause. GRUB has these stage 1.5 fs related files: `e2fs_stage1_5' `fat_stage1_5' `ffs_stage1_5' `jfs_stage1_5' `minix_stage1_5' `reiserfs_stage1_5' `vstafs_stage1_5' `xfs_stage1_5' > /boot is sda4 and is ext3. But I'm > sure grub should work no matter where you install it. I can even > install it on sda1 which is NTFS and it works. Hell, I can even install > it on the swap partition. I think you are mixing stage 1 and stage 2 GRUB images? Stage 1 is installed in MBR or any partition's boot sector. No knowledge of fs is required for that to be accessed (by BIOS or a chainloader) and JUMPTO deals with that. The 1.5 images on the other hand are used to read the fs in which GRUB's stage 2 is installed. That's far too large to fit into a boot sector. I doubt that GRUB's e2fs_stage1_5 can read ext4, but I don't know really - a question for GRUB's mailing list? > I guess the reason it broke will remain a mystery :P -- Regards, Mick
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