Re: corrupted partition with grub in hda1

[George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org>]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:53:20PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:24:26AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
>> 
>> It depends how far into the partition grub writes, but right
>> after the superblock is going to be the root inode. If you are
>> lucky it will have survived, if not everything in the filesystem
>> will have been moved into lost+found by repair.
>
>probably only 446 bytes since its most likly just the same first stage
>loader as goes in the MBR, but im sure it assumes it has a full 1K to
>play with in partitions since `they are always ext2'
>
>it looks like its time for another patch to make grub check and refuse
>to install on XFS partitions, i think it already checks filesystem
>type, and its already aware of XFS, it just needs to be taught not to
>stomp all over XFS.
>


That would be nice :)

// George

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