Bug#378388: grub-install: should check & report partition type <> mount type

[James R. Van Zandt]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-12
Severity: normal


When running grub-install, got many errors "the file .../stage1 not
read correctly".  The problem turned out to be that the disk had an
ext2 filesystem on it (and that's how it was mounted), but the
partition type was for FAT16.  Once I fixed the latter, grub-install
ran fine.  grub-install should check whether the filesystem as
currently mounted is consistent with the partition type, and if not
complain with a relevant message, or at the very least issue a message
mentioning the partition type.

               - Jim Van Zandt

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1.1    Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information