freezing machine updated/upgraded to rawhide/current sulfur

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:07:55PM -0700, Antonio
> Olivares wrote:
> > 
> > I have updated/upgraded the machine that was
> freezing all the time
> > to Rawhide using Fedora Preview Iso + Updates.  
> > 
> > There is only one gotcha. Grub is not working
> correctly?
> > 
> > When starting up machine. IT does nothing it stays
> at 
> > 
> > GRUB
> 
> AFAIK grub-0.97 will not load boot files from a
> partition with
> inode size bigger that 128. That was not an issue in
> the past
> but the current mke2fs, when a partition is "big
> enough" - I
> believe, will use by default 256 bytes inodes.  This
> should make
> possible a future migration to ext4.  I wonder if
> this is not
> the problem you are seeing?
> 
> > I can successfully boot it using livecd's to boot
> the partition.
> 
> In that case you can check.  Boot that way and run
> 
>    tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 | grep 'Inode size'
>
I tried the command above to see what was output and I
got:

Inode size: 128

so it appears all is well. I did a
# grub-install /dev/sda

and grub is working again :)

Regards,

Antonio 
> 
> to see if the above is really the case.  This
> assumes that
> /dev/sda2 is really the partition in question but
> "root (hd0,1)"
> seems to support that.
> 
> If my guess is correct then you would have to redo a
> file system
> on /dev/sda2 with an explicit '-I 128' request to
> mke2fs before
> restoring a content of this partition and
> reinstalling grub
> once again.  Mind you, such action will change UUID
> so if that
> file system doubles as / then your current grub.conf
> and
> /etc/fstab will become invalid and will have to be
> adjusted.
> The later file will likely need changes in any case.
> 
> If you can confirm that this is what really happened
> then
> there is a really serious "gotcha" in anaconda.
> 
>    Michal
> 
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