grub-legacy can't read my ext2 partition?

[Colin McCabe]

Hi all,

I have an ext2 partition and grub-legacy is unable to read any of the
files on it. I created another partition and formatted it with ext3,
and grub had no problems.

I understand that grub-legacy is in "bugfix only" mode right now. But
this does seem like it could be a bug.

I am using fedora core 11. It comes with kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.
I have tried using the grub that ships with Fedora Core 11 and also
the grub-0.97.tar.gz from upstream, but with the same results.
Actually, there was one difference-- the grub from upstream was unable
to read the ext3 partition either!

Here's a sample of the error message:

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grub> root (hd0,1)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> cat (hd0,1)/grub.conf

Error 2: Bad file or directory type
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Anyway. I thought I would mention this.

thanks,
Colin McCabe