From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Peter" Subject: Re: partition cannot be mounted from grub Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <45129B6B.6090005@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx-nJ1KrdHEGnBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Sender: news List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list-nJ1KrdHEGnBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:02:19 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: snip... > 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 0.94/0.97 (not grub2). Just happened yesterday as a test. I also found it impossible to run grub in its /boot/grub mounted partition. I had to boot off another partition or a live cd and run grub from there. I did not find this trouble with r4 however. Just my experience however. -- Peter +++++ Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and not monitored. I can be reached via this list, or via jabber: pete4abw at jabber.org ICQ: 73676357