I started a discussion about this patch on the mailing list, which you can view here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-10/msg00450.html Here's a short summary: * there was some code to address the most important aspects of the misdetection problem, but it was commented out (and is scheduled to be reincluded at some point). * we agree that the existing commented out code would solve most practical misdetection problems. * we agree that it is almost impossible to solve all practical misdetection problems. * we disagreed about my patch: the maintainers thought that my patch could introduce new problems, whereas I claim there is no possibility of introducing new problems. The maintainers declined to spell out their concerns. What should be done? * at the moment, the misdetection problem is severe... if you reformat a FAT or NTFS partition as your root ext3/4 partition, you should expect your system to not boot with grub2! (My computer became unbootable, which is how I found the problem.) * it is possible that many people will be affected. Certainly, thousands of people were affected by such problems when I maintained (lib)parted (before we improved our detection heuristics.) * my patch solves the problem * the commented out code probably solves of the problem * I think Ubuntu should either apply one of the patches ASAP, or revert to a more stable version of Grub (with the commented out code included.) ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 430333 beta installer left ASUS EeePC 900 unbootable ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 430333 beta installer left ASUS EeePC 900 unbootable -- grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463015 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
