From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PaTeu-0000Zc-Av for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:44:12 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58861 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaTeo-0000Xw-QO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:44:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaTen-0002YK-NG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:44:06 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:36082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaTen-0002YG-Ip for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:44:05 -0500 Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so8470094fxm.0 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:44:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=OZpXwPgBZsVuGdwBeOVVHEPMhZK5vR0OfGcSATWKTBE=; b=h4zG2OYu+I/55Xe0WcmLtQIyjK1iq7o1Pem3t3sYNAKE5/FK3IGjzupupLXNlE/DKq d7De2mkZUNhkpt8s3DLqOQHew5n1hhgSV1AyOTc3kpKwjv6qGVzHg45TEIMD/Jk1k027 ebnbiC/dn2Borlz5fmiWRp86VTTz6C8b4pAzc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=fkl6hzz9zvGifF9zF54wUxOBepM49b7LsEQaxyI1qs8GbIgqKC9p1YyTtQ35sqN1Eq tsxW3X5Iu+YajY+fxKgjVOa0d8JIvl/TBnAdQf1VLZ/HDTVGdDSczvpfR9tFcmrXLlhr nL/azmitGOt9893odQP7PN1I4X1uaqhy8/xhM= Received: by 10.223.74.142 with SMTP id u14mr206136faj.97.1294235044340; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:44:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs53.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y1sm5468699fak.15.2011.01.05.05.43.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:44:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D247589.101@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:43:37 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1257008516.3149.45.camel@ron-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1257008516.3149.45.camel@ron-desktop> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig75CB73CF74B8980662ADE55F" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: Ron Subject: Re: "error: invalid magic number" when booting from ISO loopback X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:44:09 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig75CB73CF74B8980662ADE55F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/31/2009 06:01 PM, Ron wrote: > This entry fails silently and when the commands were executed one by on= e > the linux command shows the error message "error: invalid magic number"= =2E > > =20 This can be caused by BIOS cutting last sectors of the disk to make it appear to have C/H/S geometry of some kind. Can you compare "ls -l" from GRUB shell and grub-fstest /dev/sdX ls -- -l especially compare the total sector count in both cases. > A short google search gave me the following similar bug report but no > solution: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D543924 > > =20 This was on ext2 and the cause were triple indirect blocks --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig75CB73CF74B8980662ADE55F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk0kdYkACgkQNak7dOguQgktVQD/ckV7PYMiyxpojldnrReFm1hr eCtk2ShRAC9atKQlpP8BAI85xf9gn0lXyXltOMTnyUm0pKunhxsNfFBekpvLc+F8 =kDU6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig75CB73CF74B8980662ADE55F--