[Bug 288359] Re: installer should warn that a patched version of grub is needed for new ext3 file system with 256 bit inodes.

[Phillip Susi]

This was fixed years ago.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  installer should warn that a patched version of grub is needed for new
  ext3 file system with 256 bit inodes.

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I have two root partitions defined on my disk plus a home partition as
  follows:

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1        1165     9357831    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda2            1166        1295     1044225   82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda3            1296        6349    40596255    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda4            6350       14593    66219930    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
  /dev/sda5           13670       14593     7421998+  83  Linux
  /dev/sda6           12087       13669    12715416   83  Linux
  /dev/sda7            6350       12086    46082389+  83  Linux

  I use the Gutsy installation on sda6 daily and this installation uses
  sda7 as /home while I have used the installation on sda5 for testing
  new versions like Hardy and now Intrepid.

  During the install of the beta of Intrepid 8.10 beta (released Oct
  10). I decided not to install grub to the mbr but, the root of sda5
  instead. On the completion of the install my plan was to boot into
  Gutsy and access the Hardy partition and copy the entries in
  /boot/grub/menu.lst that relate to the new Intrepid install into the
  menu.lst on sda6 so that I could boot into the new installation. As a
  result of formatting sda5, changing it's UUID, I had problems booting
  Gutsy and had to resolve that issue. Once I sorted that out, I
  received the message  "Error 2: bad file or directory" when trying to
  boot Intrepid.

  I found that the problem is that the new installation ext3 file system
  uses 256 bit inodes rather that 128 bit ones and the current version
  of grub (GRUB 0.97-29ubuntu4). needs to be patched to handle that.
  That version that works is GRUB 0.97-29ubuntu45.

  When doing an install that formats ext3 with 256 bit inodes on a
  system that has GRUB 0.97-29ubuntu4 installed, the installer should
  warn the user that the currently installed version of grub is
  incompatible with the file system on the new install and should be
  replaced by GRUB 0.97-29ubuntu45. It could also suggest that if a
  Windows boot-loader exists on the disk, the latest version of grub4dos
  (0.4.4) could be used to access the new install. This is the route I
  used to get into my new Intrepid install from which, I installed the
  patched version of grub to the mbr. It would have been a more
  pleasant,  almost perfect install, if I had been warned and installed
  the patched version of grub from the install.

  Alan

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