Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-17 Thread Chris McRaven
I experienced exactly the same problem as described in Messages #5 and #17. In fact my hexdump of the first 512 bytes of my /dev/sda1 produced exactly the same hexdump described in Message #17. The workaround for me was to copy all of the files from the /boot partition, run mkfs.ext2 on it,

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-17 Thread Chris McRaven
I experienced exactly the same problem as described in Messages #5 and #17. In fact my hexdump of the first 512 bytes of my /dev/sda1 produced exactly the same hexdump described in Message #17. The workaround for me was to copy all of the files from the /boot partition, run mkfs.ext2 on

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 05.02.2009, 14:19 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: Hello, If I type root or root (hd0,1), it says FAT filesystem, and ls fails to show any files. This laptop is a dell mini 9, the only disk is a SSD, which is partitioned as follows: Command (m for help): p hm maybe something

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-14 Severity: normal When I chainload into grub 2 from grub, it fails to show a menu, I think it said file not found. If I type root or root (hd0,1), it says FAT filesystem, and ls fails to show any files. This laptop is a dell mini 9, the only disk is a

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Felix Zielcke wrote: hm maybe something simliar as in #505137 Could you please show the output of hexdump -Cn 512 /dev/hda1? Maybe you had a fat filesystem and mkfs.ext2 didn't overwrite the first 512 bytes. r...@gnu:~grub-probe / fat IIRC the original partition layout of this

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
Joey Hess wrote: Felix Zielcke wrote: hm maybe something simliar as in #505137 Could you please show the output of hexdump -Cn 512 /dev/hda1? Maybe you had a fat filesystem and mkfs.ext2 didn't overwrite the first 512 bytes. r...@gnu:~grub-probe / fat IIRC the original

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Aioanei Rares wrote: You chose to install grub on the MBR? Yes, as debian will by default. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

2009-02-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 05.02.2009, 15:09 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: I deleted those partitions in d-i (lenny rc1), and made a single /dev/hda1 of the whole disk, so its start would have been where that fat used to be. This seems identical to #505137, so I think that bug was closed too