Bug#780545: os-prober looping with formated partitions without OS
Thanks for your reply KiBi!
Eriberto
2015-04-03 17:01 GMT-03:00 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> (2015-03-15):
>> Package: os-prober
>> Version: 1.65
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: d-i
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> When installing the Jessie (netinst, amd64, 20150315) or updating GRUB in my
>> Dell Vostro 5470, the os-prober is looping if there are formated partitions
>> without an installed operational system.
>>
>> I have two extra empty partitions with ReiserFS and vfat:
>>
>> --- /dev/sda3
>> Block device, size 596 MiB (624951296 bytes)
>> ReiserFS file system (new 3.6 format, standard journal, starts at 64 KiB)
>> UUID 1D55E629-8E1D-452C-AFA2-23D45AF1DA04 (DCE, v4)
>> Volume size 596 MiB (624951296 bytes, 152576 blocks of 4 KiB)
>>
>> --- /dev/sda4
>> Block device, size 461 MiB (483393536 bytes)
>> FAT32 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
>> Volume size 460.1 MiB (482430976 bytes, 117781 clusters of 4 KiB)
>
> I should note that at least ReiserFS is no longer supported, see:
> | os-prober (1.63) unstable; urgency=low
> |
> | [ Cyril Brulebois ]
> | * Drop reiserfs, it's no longer supported.
> |
> | -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:38:17 +0200
>
> so maybe there's something fishy with filesystems whose support has been
> dropped. The “tr” call seems indeed strange to my candid eye.
>
> I'll add that to my to do list, but it's unlikely to be addressed for
> RC3 / the first jessie release unless somebody steps in and debugs this
> further in the upcoming days.
>
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
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