I made a test to see if Grub had difficulty reaching high up in an ext4 partition (no ntfs or wubi involved so may be irrelevant to present bug).
First, I installed and fully updated (as of 12/2/09) Xubuntu 9.10 in a desktop machine letting it use the entire 80GB disk with the root directory at sda1 formatted in ext4. update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda worked fine and rebooting was successful. I then booted up Xubuntu as a LiveCD on that system and did the following: --used tar to copy all of the installed system from sda1 to a USB drive. --ran mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda1 --used dd to put a file of varying size (1MB, 1GB, 2GB and 10GB) as the first entry (besides lost+found) on that partition --used tar to copy the system back from the USB drive --used mount --bind to set up /mnt/dev, /mnt/proc, /mnt/sys to allow me to work the reestablished disk system from the LiveCD system. --chroot /mnt and ran update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda without any errors. --exited chroot and umounted /mnt/dev, /mnt/proc /mnt/sys, and /mnt --rebooted successfully each time and was able to run update-grub and install-grub /dev/sda and successfully reboot again. I had expected problems based on my poorly-documented experiences a week or so ago, but found none this time. -- Wubi/Karmic boot: kernel panic - not synching: VFS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
