Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 100863
GRUB returns error code 17 when trying to boot from ReiserFS filesystem
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:56:09 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: When trying to boot one of my other distributions that was installed on a ReiserFS filesystem, GRUB returns and error saying that it cannot read the filesystem. Taking ReiserFS support out of the kernel was one thing, but not giving GRUB the ability to boot from a ReiserFS filesystem greatly hampers any interaction w/ other distros on the same machine. Some of the more popular distros like Debian and SuSE standardize on ReiserFS. The least you could do was continue some form of support for it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.93-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot Computer 2.Select Distro installed on ReiserFS (SuSE 8.2) Actual Results: GRUB returns Error Code 17 and refuses to mount the filesystem to boot it. Expected Results: GRUB should boot the OS with no problem. It is supposed to be able to boot many different OS across different filesystems Additional info:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2001-06/msg00134.html Possibly related? Did GRUB from an earlier version of Red Hat or other distributions successfully boot a reiserfs fs?
I've never had troubles booting previous versions of RH (since 7.3) from a Resier filesystem.
Installed to the MBR or the boot record of /boot?
And I just did an install to an all reiserfs system and was able to boot with grub fine (grub installed to the mbr)
I installed it on the first sector of /boot
Hrmm, and I've done this now and had it work as well. Did this still happen with test3? If so, is it a large filesystem?
Does GRUB require notails with reiserfs?
I'm using FC test 3 with ReiserFS. I installed fresh on a new laptop (as the only OS), initially ext3 because there was no option for reiserfs (though I now know about the install boot option - never seen it documented though). Anyhow, I then converted the whole system over to ReiserFS by creating a new partition and copying everything. Only thing I had to do was mkinitrd to get the reiserfs module at boot time. My machine now is pure ReiserFS and has been for a couple of weeks. Grub has always worked fine. Not saying there isn't a bug, just that it's more specific than just using Reiser. I'm now fully updated to rawhide and all still fine. Oh, and I don't use notails, so doubt that is it. (That is to say, I do have tails packed, the default.)