Installation of GRUB on a reiserfs partition always fails
Bug #123102 reported by
M. Vefa Bicakci
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #185878: GRUB installation fails if installing to certain non-ext3 filesystems.
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Bug Description
Hello,
When one tries to install GRUB on a reiserfs partition instead of the MBR,
the installation fails with the following message:
"Executing 'grub-install (hd0,9)' failed.
This is a fatal error."
I have confirmed that this error does not occur when an ext3 partition
or the MBR is used for GRUB.
In /var/log/syslog (which I will attach in a minute) one sees the following
error message
"Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2"
This bug exists at least in Kubuntu Feisty.
I will attach a screenshot of the error message in addition to the
relevant log files.
Thank you for your attention.
- situert
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status: | New → Confirmed |
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As a beginner with Linux in general and Ubuntu specifically, I was struggling with exactly the same issue, starting with Feisty 7.04 and all the way through up to 7.10 tribe-3 right now.
For me, the grub-installer: section in my user.log reads exactly the same. I'm having '/' on a 10GB JFS and tried to get /boot on a 24MB JFS as well, which always failed with the same error message as described by the OP.
BTW, it also is kind of poor, especially with Ubuntu Desktop being targeted to Linux beginners, that if /boot is only 14MB, what I had at first, you get the same stupid error message about grub-install, but no hint whatsoever, that /boot simply being too small is the *real* problem.
How is a beginner supposed to find out about that?