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#185878: GRUB installation fails if installing to certain non-ext3 filesystems. Edit Remove 10 Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone grub (Ubuntu) Edit Invalid Medium Unassigned Edit Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description I tried to install breezy using the netboot image. It went until a bootloader would be installed, then grub failed with the following error: grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (hd0,0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... 19 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/grub-error-6-mismatched-o-corrupt-version-of-stage1-stage-2-a-147587/ (hd0,0) 1+19 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2 grub> quit Add tags Tag help Jeff Bailey (jbailey) wrote on 2005-09-19: #1 Is this during the install, or is this something you were doing by hand afterwards? Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote on 2005-09-19: #2 No, this is during the install. I tried to use lilo instead, but it failed as well. See bug #13851 for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21957 the error messages I got from running lilo. Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) on 2007-03-30 Changed in grub: assignee: tfheen → nobody Carlos Diener / emonkey (emonkey) wrote on 2008-03-30: #3 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance. Changed in grub: status: New → Incomplete Connor Imes (rocket2dmn) wrote on 2008-08-03: #4 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again! Changed in grub: status: Incomplete → Invalid Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2009-06-30: #5 Thanks for your report. We eventually nailed this down as bug 185878. See full activity log To post a comment you must log in. Report a bug This report contains Publ
9 Sep 2003 13:03:02 UTC Severity: wishlist Tags: wontfix Found in version 0.93+cvs20030905-1 Reply or subscribe to this bug. Toggle useless messagesView this report as an mbox folder, status mbox, https://bugs.debian.org/209340 maintainer mbox Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Jason Thomas
Show Task # Please read this before reporting a bug: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_Bug_Guidelines Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in Unsupported. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List. REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages! Tasklist FS#25442 - grub-install fails with: Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2 Attached to Project: Arch Linux Opened by kachelaqa (kachelaqa) - Monday, 08 August 2011, 00:13 GMT Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 06:49 GMT Task Type Bug Report Category Packages: Core Status Closed Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh) Architecture i686 Severity High Priority Normal Reported Version Due in Version Undecided Due Date Undecided Percent Complete Votes 10 Paweł (Bender1988) (2011-08-10) Luis Medina (Lytimli95) (2011-08-09) javi (acx) (2011-08-09) Jochen Breuer (brejoc) (2011-08-09) Vladyslav Chyzhevskyi (coirius) (2011-08-09) James Sharp (thermosuk) (2011-08-08) al (scm) (2011-08-08) Ashley Heron (breakage) (2011-08-08) Jonathan Liu (net147) (2011-08-08) Hendrik (kampsun) (2011-08-08) Private No Details Description: after updating to the linux 3 kernel, grub-install fails with the following output: grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/grub (hd0) Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 20 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+20 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst"... failed Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2 grub> quit Additional info: * package version(s) linux-3.0.1-1 grub-0.97-19 * other /boot is on a separate ext2 partition (all other partitions are ext3) This task depends upon Closed byRonald van Haren (pressh) Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 06:49 GMT Reason for closing: Fixed Additional comments about closing: grub 0.97-20. If it still doesn't work for you, check the comments in this bug report for guidelines. Comments (42) Related Tasks (0/1) Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Monday, 08 August 2011, 07:31 GMT installing grub has not