From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4 [RESOLVED] Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:53:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20170627015338.5heipzrsmp4dwsmd@thunk.org> References: <20170623195318.cfs4ftpmy5nhcccy@thunk.org> <20170623232935.13fa4688@leda> <048DD704-9937-4E2F-9BBD-2430CB734E2D@illumenos.com> <20170626024019.hni2k6uwfb7sknaw@thunk.org> <53DF6A08-AA60-4A9C-BD29-46475DAB528A@illumenos.com> Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: The development of GNU GRUB , Christian Hesse , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe A Rodriguez Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53DF6A08-AA60-4A9C-BD29-46475DAB528A@illumenos.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: grub-devel-bounces+gcbgd-grub-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Grub-devel" List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote: > > So when you say that enabling the 64-bit file system feature causes a > > regression by causing Grub to fail to be able to read the root file > > system, I have to respectfully disagree. I do it all the time when I > > reboot my kernel, and it Works For Me... > > Huh ??? I indicated GRUB 2.00 stopped working with the upgrade to 1.43.4, but GRUB 2.02 works fine. You originally said: On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote: > Upgrading from e2fsprogs-1.42.13 to e2fsprogs-1.43.4 causes the boot > loader to fail (unknown filesystem error) on the x86_64 VM I use for > initial testing. I traced the problem to changes in the e2fsprogs > configuration file which now sets 64 bit flags. I tried upgrading > to GRUB 2.02 but that did not resolve the problem. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In your follow up, you didn't bother line wrapping your message, so I misparsed the sentence where you stated "Grub 2.02 does resolve the problem" because it was burried in a several hundred character long line. My apologies. - Ted