From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:02:19 -0400 Message-ID: <45129B6B.6090005@suse.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: > Two suggestions. > > 1) I have found that grub files in r3 have to be copied using -o notail on > the mount command. If you do not use notail, the files are not able to be > read by grub. > 2) do not try and create a grub boot while in the r3 partition. Make sure > the partition is unmounted, then boot from a live cd and run grub from > there. I'm curious what version of grub caused you to come to these conclusions. Grub has been using the REISERFS_IOC_UNPACK ioctl for ages. It's the same thing lilo uses and causes those files to only use indirect blocks (ie: no tails). If you've been running into this problem with any recent version of grub, it's a bug. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFEptrLPWxlyuTD7IRAlsHAJ9GvQ/jJDKbWmCuAlmJxcwcl66gJwCgot5t qQBPRVmv5OWTwJ2VPX4facE= =x/4R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----