Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

[Chris McRaven]

 > I experienced exactly the same problem as described in Messages #5 and
 > #17.  In fact my hexdump of the first 512 bytes of my /dev/sda1
 > produced exactly the same hexdump described in Message #17.
 >
 > The workaround for me was to copy all of the files from the /boot
 > partition, run mkfs.ext2 on it, and re-copy the files back onto it.
 > After doing this, `grub-probe /boot` returns "ext2".
 >
 > Grub2 now works fine.
 >
 > Cheers.

Forgot to mention that my grub-pc version is

grub-pc 1.96+20081201-1


Thanks.