Bug#462449: grub-pc: GRUB_FONT_PATH unread

[Robert Millan]

severity 462449 important
retitle 462449 ext4 mistakenly identified as supported (by grub-probe)
clone 462449 -1
retitle -1 support for ext4
thanks

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:41:03PM +0100, Idzi wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.95+20080124-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> 
> The variable GRUB_FONT_PATH File /etc/default/grub   no longer read and the system does not boot if /usr is ext4

Please describe exactly what you see.  Does GRUB crash?  Does it hang?  Does
it print any error?

What does "grub-probe -t fs /usr" print?

On a sidenote, can you tell me more about ext4?  Does Linux 2.6.24 automaticaly
add ext4 extensions to your existing ext3 partitions, or did you make them (or
migrate them) explicitly via mke2fs/tune2fs or so?

Thanks

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