Both fat and ext[234] boot sectors present at once cause confusion
Bug #463015 reported by
Andrew Clausen
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub2
grub-probe incorrectly identifies my ext3 partition as containing a fat file system. This means it can't boot without manual tweaking.
I suspect the problem is that my partition contains stale fat signatures... this is probably a common problem, as mke2fs often doesn't wipe old signatures.
I attached first 8k of my file system for testing purposes.
tags: | added: patch-rejected-upstream |
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The bug also affects grub's bootloader (not just the bootloader installer).
If both fat and ext2 modules are loaded, then grub is unable to find anything on my root filesystem because it incorrectly identifies it as fat.
I'm working on a patch.