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On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:38 +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:33 -0400, Drake Donahue wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > If I'm correct you're running into the ext3 large inode issue. Briefly, |
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> > > old versions used 128 byte inodes, while newer versions use 256 byte |
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> > > inodes by default, in ordered to be ready for the improvements coming in |
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> > > ext4. The problem is that legacy grub doesn't support the larger inodes, |
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> > > and isn't being developed any longer so that isn't going to change, while |
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> > > new grub isn't even scheduled for format compatibility stability until |
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> > > late this year! |
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> > > |
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> > An interesting find. Were the inodes for ext2 also defaulted to 256 or only |
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> > those for ext3? This question relevant as Raffaele only talked about using |
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> > ext2 and vfat partitions on the pen drive. In a quick search I found no |
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> > indications. If ext2 inode structure was also changed much more should be |
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> > heard about this. |
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> I confirm that by default mkfs.ext2 created 256 byte inodes so I'm |
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> positive about Duncan's suggestion. I'll try to re-create the partition |
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> forcing inode size to 128. I'm using stable amd64 system, updated a |
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> couple of weeks ago. |
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I confirm that passing -I 128 to mkfs.ext2 fixes the problem, now grub |
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finds the stage files and installs happily on the ext2 partition. |
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thanks again, |
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raf |
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