On 2010/03/07 00:09 (GMT-0600) Jan Stefan composed: >> I am new to grub, Linux, and mail lists. >> I did look in the Manual and mail list archive but found no solutions.
>> I have 2 identical x86 PCs. The first was set up by someone else who is no >> longer available and Grub works fine. >> Menu.lst has 2 menu entries, one to boot a backup Linux in sda1 the other >> boots the production system in sda2. >> The stage 2 loader is in the first partition. I have an embedded ext2 stage >> 1.5 following the MBR. >> The second system boots the backup partition but not the production system. >> I can mount and use the second partition from the backup Linux. >> The print command to the parted program shows the same information for >> partitions on both PCs. >> Both partitions on the second system were made by the parted application as >> primary ext2 partitions. >> mkfs.ext3 was used to turn them into ext3. >> The data for each partition was untared from archived data. >> On the second PC when I select the menu entry for the sda2 partition, I >> receive the message "bad file or directory type" from the kernel command. >> If I corrupt the kernel name, I receive the same message, while I would have >> expected "file not found". >> The only other symptom I can see where PCs differ is that a find command that >> should find a file in both partitions finds them on the first PC but only >> reports (hd0,0) on the second PC. >> The manual says find will work on all mountable partitions. My second >> partition is mountable but find does not seem to work. >> I need to get grub to load from either partition on the second PC. >> Any ideas would be appreciated. On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:49:18 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > My memory could be wrong on this, but I think this error message results from > an attempt to read from a >128 byte Inode formatted EXT3 partition with an > older Grub version that only understands 128 byte Inode formatting. If so, > reinstalling a newer and understanding legacy Grub version will fix it. > -- > "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious > people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any > other." John Adams, 2nd US President THANKS! The Inode size was the problem. The first small partition defaulted to a 128 byte Inode and worked with grub. The larger partition defaulted to 256 bytes and grub did not see it. I chose to change the Inode size with the mkfs.ext3 command rather than update grub. Jan
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