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From: | Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko |
Subject: | Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4 |
Date: | Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:31:38 +0000 |
On Jun 23, 2017, at 11:29 PM, Christian Hesse <address@hidden> wrote:
> Theodore Ts'o <address@hidden> on Fri, 2017/06/23 15:53:
>> +grub-devel
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Upgrading from e2fsprogs-1.42.13 to e2fsprogs-1.43.4 causes the boot
>>> loader to fail (unknown filesystem error) on the x86_64 VM I use for
>>> initial testing. I traced the problem to changes in the e2fsprogs
>>> configuration file which now sets 64 bit flags. I tried upgrading
>>> to GRUB 2.02 but that did not resolve the problem. Reverting the
>>> changes per the patch below fixes the problem.
>>
>> Hmm, my laptop has been using a file system with the 64-bit feature
>> enabled for quite some time, and my Debian Stretch system has been
>> using Grub 2.02 to boot my system without any difficulties.
>>
>> I've done a quick check of the Debian patches and none of them seem to
>> modify Grub's ext2/ext4 file system implementation. So I don't know
>> what to tell you. Are you sure you properly reinstalled grub on the
>> boot device after you upgraded to grub 2.02?
>
Yes. I did not upgrade the test VM directly. I replaced GRUB 2.00 with 2.02 in my build automation which creates an installer ISO. Installation onto the VM is also largely automated. GRUB 2.02 (and 2.00) work fine if I revert the config file to that in 1.42.13.
To be clear: I don’t believe any of the code changes between 1.42.13 and 1.43.4 cause this issue. The problem arises from just the changes in the built-in default configuration file that gets installed. A distro that uses its own custom configuration file may not encounter this issue.
> Grub should be fine, however syslinux still suffers issues with 64-bit
> feature. Possibly you use a chain to load syslinux first, grub second?
Yes, my test VM is configured to chain load GRUB from Syslinux (ISOLINUX). I don’t recall whether I tried booting directly into GRUB so I will test that tomorrow.
Regards,
Felipe
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