Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>> On my PC I have many different partitions. With Etch, I've never had
>> problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and
>> not to the master boot record.
>>
>> Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought from an
>> official Debian vendor, and: if I install the Grub boot loader to the mbr,
>> everything seems all right; instead, if I install the Grub boot loader to a
>> partition, then I can't boot into the system and get an
>>
>> Error 2: Bad file or directory type
>>
>> Did anyone experience the same problem, why does it occur and how to solve
>> it?
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> To say it more simply, the problem is that I can't boot into my Lenny
> partition from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the
> mbr.
It seems that this is the grub vs inode problem discussed in the following
www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/6480/1/
caused by new distributions using ext3 filesystems with 256 byte inodes
grub is not able to access these partitions
Rodolfo
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