Comment 7 for bug 207001

I have the same problem with Xubuntu 8.10. Using Grub from CentOS 5.2, Grub can't recognize the directories Xubuntu created.

The solution "grub-install --recheck --no-floppy" proposed above didn't work. I ended up creating the partition with CentOS, and having the Xubuntu installation program use it without formating it.

It does seem that the problem is that Xubuntu creates file systems with 256-byte inodes rather than 128 bytes.