From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>, 634799@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: grub2 claims grub.cfg is out of partition
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:14:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E27613E.1080306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110720225411.GH7303@const.famille.thibault.fr>
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On 21.07.2011 00:54, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Thu 21 Jul 2011 00:31:51 +0200, a écrit :
>> On 21.07.2011 00:28, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> tags 634799 + upstream patch
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>> I've looked into it and arrived to the similar conclusion that the
>> grub.cfg.new with inode = 0 is the problem. However I think no such
>> entries should be there in the first place.
> Mmm, the following spec seems to say it is valid:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html#IFDIR-INODE
>
> A value of 0 indicate that the entry is not used.
>
Even in this case I'd recommend avoiding creating such entries since
various third-party extN software (inclusive readers for other OS) is
tailored for Linux flavour. Being nearer to this de-facto reference
would facilitate interoperation. (but as I said GRUB implementation is
to be fixed regardless)
> Samuel
>
--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-20 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-20 21:50 grub2 claims grub.cfg is out of partition Svante Signell
2011-07-20 22:02 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-07-20 22:17 ` Svante Signell
2011-07-20 22:28 ` Samuel Thibault
2011-07-20 22:31 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-07-20 22:54 ` Samuel Thibault
2011-07-20 23:14 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-07-20 22:33 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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