Re: problem with grub and multiple reiserfs partitions

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Friday 13 June 2003 15:00, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am having having problems getting grub to read files on reiserfs. (I am
> using grub version 0.91 and debian stable) Sometimes, for no obvoius
> reason, it would print error 15 at boot time, indicating that the
> kernel file could not be found. This happened usually when some large
> changes had been made on the filesystem, even if the kernel itself was
> left intact.

Does it get fixed after working on the filesystem for some time?  If
yes, this is probably a journalling problem, which would narrow down
the code I need to audit.

> [...]
> Suddenly, grub seems a very confused when it comes to reading from
> hda2. First it cannot find any file, and then it finds a file on hda1
> and claims it is on hda2!? The order in which the 'find' commands are
> executed matters, but so far I have not been able to figure out
> exactly how.

How big is a compressed image of /dev/hda2?  If it is too big, can you
build an image of the first half megabyte, compress it and send it to
me (or better upload it somewhere).

  Jochen

-- 
Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Email: address@hidden  Tel: +49 441 798 3124