[Bug 1274320] Re: Error: diskfilter writes are not supported

[Florent Flament]

Hi,

Couldn't apply neither patch #70 nor #71 on my Ubuntu 14.04.  I guess
00_header file may differ slightly between distributions.

$ patch -p0 00_header < recordfail.patch 
patching file 00_header
Hunk #1 FAILED at 102.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file 00_header.rej

In the end I found the following quick workaround:
Comment out line 118 of file /etc/grub.d/00_header
# if [ -n "\${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "\${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi

Then do `update-grub`

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Title:
  Error: diskfilter writes are not supported

Status in GRand Unified Bootloader:
  Invalid
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “grub2” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “grub2” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Once grub chooses what to boot to, an error shows up and will sit on
  the screen for approx. 5 seconds

  "Error: diskfilter writes are not supported.
  Press any key to continue..."

  From what I understand, this error is related to raid partitions, and
  I have two of them (md0, md1). Both partitions are used (root and
  swap). Raid is assembled with mdadm and are raid0

  This error message started appearing right after grub2 was updated on
  01/27/2014.

  System:    Kernel: 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.11.5 Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
  Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1064.2GB (10.9% used)
          1: id: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_SDSSDRC0 size: 32.0GB
          2: id: /dev/sdb model: SanDisk_SDSSDRC0 size: 32.0GB
          3: id: /dev/sdc model: ST31000528AS size: 1000.2GB
  RAID:      Device-1: /dev/md1 - active raid: 0 components: online: sdb2 sda3 (swap)       Device-2: /dev/md0 - active raid: 0 components: online: sdb1 sda1 ( / )
  Grub2:    grub-efi-amd64 version 2.02~beta2-5

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.02~beta2-5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Wed Jan 29 17:37:59 2014
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-23 (6 days ago)

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