GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #32391, Grub will not install in Blocklist...
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bug #32391: Grub will not install in Blocklist Mode
Submitter: | Mocking Bird <mockingbird> | ||
Submitted: | Tue 08 Feb 2011 09:22:11 PM UTC | ||
Category: | Installation | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Software Error |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | mockingbird |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | 1.98 |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
Wed 11 May 2011 12:41:01 AM UTC, comment #3: |
Mocking Bird <mockingbird> |
Sun 08 May 2011 11:30:45 PM UTC, comment #2: Please try attached patch |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Sat 02 Apr 2011 10:59:27 PM UTC, comment #1: The blocklists are unreliable because the filesystems can move the files around at will and so the exact sectors are subject to change. Any such change creates both a reliability and security problem. Previously the blocks were only rarely moved around. However, now, with features like tail repacking and online defragmenter it will become increasingly of a problem. LILO always relied on the blocklists and hence isn't a viable option in future. However, I agree that this bug should be fixed. Can you try dd if=/dev/sda skip=<START SECTOR OF sda5> of=squeeze.bin bs=512 count=1. Could you come to #grub on freenode so we can make a quicker exchange? |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Tue 08 Feb 2011 09:22:11 PM UTC, original submission:
When installing Grub in the beginning of a partition, later verification of the first 512 bytes of the partition shows nothing there, i.e., Grub is is installing to the Linux distro fine (In this case Debian Squeeze KDE AMD64), but is not writing itself to the parition table.
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Mocking Bird <mockingbird> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2011-05-11 | phcoder | Status | None | Fixed | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2011-05-08 | phcoder | Attached File | - | Added 1.diff, #23375 | |
2011-02-08 | mockingbird | Attached File | - | Added squeeze.bin, #22631 |
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Thanks Vlad.
Your patch did the trick, and I see it has been integrated with Trunk, so no need to patch if you download with bzr.
Please close this bug.