Re: grub2: symlink on reiserfs: error: file not found

[Bean]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Christian Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I'm using grub-pc installed on hda9 and chainloaded from grub legacy on 
> >> hda/hda1.
>  >> hda3 (Debian Etch) and hda9 (Debian Sid) have reiserfs (v3.6), both 
> systems are configured to use the
>  >> symlinks vmlinuz and initrd.img in their root directories (linking to the 
> actual kernel and
>  >> ramdisk). This works well using grub legacy from hda1 (so the symlinks 
> are okay).
>  >>
>  >> In grub2 both partitions are recognized (ls and tab completion) as 
> reiserfs.
>  >> Selecting Sid (hda9) works as expected,
>  >> Selecting Etch (hda3) produces the error: You need to load the ramdisk 
> first.
>  >> Typing on grub commandline: linux (hd0,3)/vmlinuz makes error: file not 
> found
>  >> Typing: linux (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-k7 loads the kernel.
>
>  Robert Millan asked me to produce a test case and send it to this 
> mailinglist.
>  I'm not very familiar with doing so but this should work:
>
>  echo "Testfile" >/boot/test
>  ln -s /boot/test /test
>
>  The diskimage http://www.chbmeyer.de/1.reiserfs.gz has a size of 35 MB 
> (compressed: 36kb).
>  "ls (hd0)/" works well
>  "cat (hd0)/test" produces: error: file not found
>

The test file have problem, the link is pointed to /mnt/boot/test
instead of /boot/test.

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Bean