address@hidden: Bug#175358: grub: detects ext2 filesystem as MS-DOS]

[Jason Thomas]

okuji does this make sense to you?

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> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 10:30:14 +1100
> From: Brian May <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#175358: grub: detects ext2 filesystem as MS-DOS
> 
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.91-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> According to the "grub/floppy/ext2 question" thread on Debian-devel:
> 
> - grub (unlike Linux) checks for the MS-DOS filesystem before
>   ext2 filesytem.
> 
> - This checks the boot sector.
> 
> - However, mke2fs doesn't erase the boot sector.
> 
> ==> If previous filesystem was on floppy was MS-DOS (as
> is almost always the case, grub will incorrectly detect it
> as MS-DOS).
> 
> 
> From the mailing list:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:40:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > If you check if a file system is Ext2 before checking if it is MS-DOS (as
> > Linux does) then there will be no problems in such a situation.
> >
> > I think that format.exe will wipe out the Ext2 superblock, so therefore the
> > only correct thing to do is to check for Ext2 first before even considering
> > checking for MS-DOS.
> >
> > I suggest that a bug be filed against grub in this regard.
> 
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux snoopy 2.4.19 #1 Wed Oct 30 11:36:54 EST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
> 
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii  libc6                    2.2.5-11.2      GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> 
> 

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