I think I've nailed this. From what I can tell, it does *not* actually affect XFS (there may of course be a problem there, but if so it's a different bug), but only filesystem types where grub has explicit knowledge of how to embed its stage 1.5 into them. The complete list of these filesystems is FFS, JFS, ReiserFS, and UFS2.
The problem here is that writing to a partition device (e.g. /dev/sda1) when you still have the disk device (e.g. /dev/sda) open does not then guarantee that you'll get fresh data back when you read from /dev/sda. In order to guarantee this, grub needs to close and reopen the disk device, or (more easily) use the BLKFLSBUF ioctl. -- GRUB installation fails if installing to non-ext3 partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185878 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
