From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Jowdo-0008I9-2q for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:17:16 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jowdn-0008Ho-8i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:17:15 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jowdm-0008HZ-MM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:17:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54057 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jowdm-0008HW-KG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:17:14 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jowdm-0008RE-TV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:17:15 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JowCd-0006rb-1q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:49:11 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JowBH-0000JZ-EP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:47:47 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JowAK-0007Xl-Te for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:46:48 +0200 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:46:48 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080424074648.GA28907@thorin> References: <136646332@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <136646332@web.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: grub2: symlink on reiserfs: error: file not found X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:17:15 -0000 On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:34:38PM +0200, Christian Meyer wrote: > Bean schrieb am 26.02.2008 06:37:47: > > > Ok, i found the bug, symbol link name in reiserfs is not null-ended, > > so we need to add 0 at the end of string: > > I am no programmer, so I had to wait for this: > Robert Millan closed the bug at Debian bug tracking system: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467025 > but I cannot confirm that the bug is gone in Debians current (sid) version: 1.96+20080413-1 > > The standard-install of the mentioned version links directly to kernel and ramdisk, so it works. > But if you change grub.cfg to load kernel and ramdisk via symlink the error still exists: > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux (4.0) (on /dev/hda3)" { > set root=(hd0,3) > linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk_size=100000 lang=de apm=power-off nomce vga=0x317 quiet noresume splash > initrd /initrd.img > } > > results in: > error: you must load the kernel first > > typing the commands manually at grub-prompt leads to > error: file not found > after the linux /vmlinuz ... line. > > > An interesting behavior of the older version (before February 25, 2008) seems to be gone: > (I discovered it after you committed your changes so I thought it is useless) > If you waited for the boot-countdown the symlinks worked as expected (system-boot), but > if you selected the same line manually (e.g. by just pressing enter) leads to > error: you must load the kernel first > > Please let me know if I can provide additional information. Please provide a filesystem image where we can reproduce this -- Robert Millan "The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the legal evasion of the license [...]. That's the provision in section 1 regarding keys. [...] We say one thing: when you sell somebody a home... give him the keys" -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3