Ubuntu
grub package

GRUB needs priority update

Bug #197951 reported by C
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Debian
Fix Released
Unknown
grub (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub

Ubuntu 7.10 installation, everything works OK, BUT during the last months there were changes that become mainstream and now mkfs.ext2/3 can/will make by default the inode size 256 (instead of the previous 'standard' of 128) and the GRUB version used in Ubuntu CAN NOT BOOT from EXT2/3 with inode set to 256 !!! There already IS a patch to fix that in GRUB (and it seems to be already used in Mandriva).
Obviously the GRUB package update should be directed at both all previous versions and the new 8.04 ...

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Mikhail S. Pobolovets (styx-mp) wrote :

I have the same problem with 8.10 release. My inode size was 256. I'h lost 2 days to fix this (may be I read google not enough carefully) I'm suprized that such problem exists more than year.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in grub:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Jeremy M (mount-j-1) wrote :

Just happened to me also. Installed the 64 bit version of Kubuntu 8.10 and my inode was 256. Result on boot after install was grub "Error 17" and in trying to fix in grub shell, got "Error 2" when trying to read ext3 partition. As with previous poster, lost a couple days trying everything until came across these bug reports. Solution was to reformat wherever /boot lives with inode size 128, re-install without using installer formatting and then everything worked fine.

This seems like a very serious bug that it results in boot error on fresh install. Looks like Debian fixed this last March with a newer Grub release, but Ubuntu doesn't have fix.

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juniper (franz-angeli) wrote :

Tried on Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 8.10 and it's the same (inode size 256 and grub problem)

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I believe this was fixed long ago with
grub (0.97-29ubuntu19) hardy; urgency=low

  [ David Futcher ]
  * debian/presubj: Fixed spelling mistake (LP: #177540)

  [ Tormod Volden ]
  * debian/update-grub: use >> instead of > when writing to existing files
    so that the script continues to work if noclobber is set. LP: #155423

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * debian/patches/ext3_256byte_inode.diff: new patch cherry-picked from
    Debian to support 256-byte inodes in ext3, for compatibility with recent
    e2fsprogs upstream defaults. Thanks Stefan Lippers-Hollmann.
 -- Steve Langasek <<email address hidden> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:12:40 -0700

Changed in grub (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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