Dual boot f8 and f9: bad experiences

[Joachim Backes]

Having an F8 installation on my box with some free partition. On this free partition I installed 
F9. So far so good: booting F9 was after install ok. Then I rebooted into the old F8 and ma a new 
/boot/grub/menu.lst including F9.

But re-writing the bootloader by grub-install failed: problems to read  /boot/grub/stage1.
(the correspondent log in /tmp: "Error 2: BAd file or directory type")

Booting after this with grub was impossible.

Checking the inode size of the F8 partition showed me that the inode size was now 256.

It seems that the F9 installer had changed the inode size of the F8 partition to 256.

I had to rebuild the F8 partition by "mkfs.ext3 -I 128 ...", copy and re-copy... After this, 
grub-install was running properly in F8.

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
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