Re: grub does not recognize ext2 filesystem

[Peter Keel]

* on the Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:04:21PM -0400, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Peter Keel wrote:
> 
> > grub does not recognize the filesystems on my disk (which are
> > ext2). It recognizes the partition table, but not the filesystems. 
> > "filesystem type unknown"
> 
> You did include the --enable-ext2fs configuration option, didn't you.

No. Its supposed to be that way by default. And a "strings" on the
grub_firmware turned up strings like reiserfs, ext2fs and so on. 
I guess its in there. Even if not, blocklists should work

> > - How is that blocklist-thingie supposed to work, and how do I get
> >   the blocks of the file if not with debugfs? 
> 
> Can the lock numbers be relative to the beginning of partition? 

They are. "fstest" and "(hd0,0)66038+280,4096" shows that it begins
loading(?) at 66101. 

Peter
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