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daneel971

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 175

recent GRUB patches from Fedora

First, apologies if this is not the right section - the following isn't a installation-hardware-desktop issue, so...

Recently I installed Fedora 9 on a PC with previous Fedora versions and Arch: GRUB was installed from Fedora 8 in the mbr of the first hd and it booted all the other distros... except Fedora 9 - I had to install F9 GRUB, and all was fine again.
Then I installed again F9 on another PC, where Arch's GRUB handled the boot process. Arch (on sda1) installed grub in the mbr of sda, and chainloaded F9's grub on sda2 (so each distro can update it's grub.conf automatically).
This didn't work because - as I found out - the Fedora installer now formats ext3 partitions with a inodes size of 256 byte and a "regular grub" can't handle this.
AFAIK Debian, Ubuntu and Suse already applied the Fedora patch (or a similar one) for GRUB and since Arch itself applies other patches from the Fedora people to GRUB, maybe even this one should be taken into account - not sure, but I think this has to do with the incoming ext4.
I did it myself using the relevant part from the patch included in the grub srpm of F9 and it worked (since I'm currently typing from Arch... ).

EDIT: I noticed that the patch is already in the Arch sources (now I wonder why pacman -Syu missed that) ... so, sorry for the noise.

Last edited by daneel971 (2008-06-02 17:47:47)

bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: recent GRUB patches from Fedora

I think you're better off filing this in the bugtracker as a feature request, or contacting the grub maintainer.