Bug#467025: grub-pc: symlink (/vmlinuz) on reiserfs: error: file not found

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:40:45PM +0100, Christian Meyer wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080219-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 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.

Please, could you produce a simple test case?  E.g. a small reiserfs image
with a plaintext file and a symlink pointing to it.

If you send that to grub-devel at gnu.org, upstream will probably address it.
There are more knowledgeable people about filesystems than me.

Thank you

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