From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1XViKT-0007WM-Ia for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:41:33 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XViKM-0007Mu-4d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:41:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XViKG-0005Mh-Kt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:41:26 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::22e]:55111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XViKG-0005MW-Ea for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:41:20 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id l4so5352459lbv.5 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 07:41:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nKODwaFGMtMf/uqarWt6j8ZhPUTNhMsntCxIddhNy+A=; b=C2HhDiAVp6Mqag8p0elhOqCze4r5alyU0Mfqoecj1h48IVAx4u2xFMNzBkH422/YHB 6edNVHvltuL/QbZ3Md5SezlbSeAPA7sQ+lclXrwsWw752mS0VI1pSIPjuqr5bu7PjdC0 HFB/9epkdqQbs/l1ENVh9Z8fkFYrE2y3eTlMnGeC894zWDAdE5hXt4JDl6THjtiFSane RwYQlTx0e55p6C8238T8gjs28szlZKjHCUcPgeJNaekqyxRTIQ1kPSmkcBmhuOhkudcl ZQJ1164V1fAJCWNvoSXAN/eS86msDod0AoCYJcIs8gmY6a5vNfZgwtY8AocKJcv5dvz3 y+bA== X-Received: by 10.112.130.41 with SMTP id ob9mr18511398lbb.12.1411310474198; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 07:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opensuse.site (ppp94-29-94-89.pppoe.spdop.ru. [94.29.94.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pr7sm2741243lbc.18.2014.09.21.07.41.02 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 21 Sep 2014 07:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:41:01 +0400 From: Andrei Borzenkov To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Probing misjudges ext2 partition as fat. Message-ID: <20140921184101.07319546@opensuse.site> In-Reply-To: <541EB089.8020408@famsik.de> References: <541EB089.8020408@famsik.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::22e Cc: gkdneu@famsik.de X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:41:31 -0000 =D0=92 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:03:37 +0200 Andreas Kr=C3=BCger =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > Hello, grub developers, >=20 > my problem summary (lots of details follow below): >=20 > My /boot file system lives on partition /dev/sda1. This was an ext2 > or ext4 file system (not entirely sure). When doing some grub-install > work, this was wrongly recognized as fat. >=20 > This resulted in a system that could no longer boot from hard drive. >=20 > What helped in the end: Copying the files of /boot, umounting, > overwriting the start of /dev/sda1 with zeros, mke2fs -t ext2 > /dev/sda1, mounting, copying the files back to /boot and running > grub-install again. >=20 Unfortunately you destroyed any possibility to investigate it further. You should at least have saved beginning of partition.