bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #11304, Dump function problem

 
 

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bug #11304: Dump function problem

Submitter:  Flavien Bridault <vlaaad>
Submitted:  Sun 12 Dec 2004 08:44:08 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Installation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Vlaaad
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Release:  0.95 Reproducibility:  Intermittent
Planned Release:  None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 04:44:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it?

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Sun 12 Dec 2004 08:44:08 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

Well I spent two days in order to try why I had problems with grub-install. I just made a new spell for Source Mage, but sometimes, I'm not able to copy grub to the MBR of my disk. Sometimes it works, sometimes don't work, without doing any changes (only time passed...)

Here is the error message :
The file /boot/grub/stage2 not read correctly.
But sometimes it can be any stage file... I managed to find that the problem came from the dump function used in grub-install via the grub-shell.
I don't know why, but the dump of the stage files don't work and /tmp file is different. After grub-install failed, I watched the /tmp/grub-install.log.* and the dump commmand seems ok. I launch grub-shell and try to do it but I get the same problem, although dump don't complain. After a lot of tests, I decided to copy my /boot/grub/stage2 on a partition located on a IDE disk. I tried then via grub-shell, to dump the copy onto /tmp/grub-install.log.* or wherever and then it works, the dumped file is the same as the copy, so well the same as stage2.
So I guess there is a problem with my main disk drive, and the only hypothesis I can emit is that it is an SATA drive or maybe it comes from a special partitioning configuration, since this is the same FS as the IDE disk (ext3). Here is the list of partitions :

Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
   Partition num: 1,  Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc
   Partition num: 2,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
   Partition num: 4,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
   Partition num: 5,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

I run linux 2.6.9, gcc3.3, the problem happens with or without the various grub patches, and it is no more linked to any configuration option.

Do you have any explanation, suggestion ??

Flavien Bridault <vlaaad>

 

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