Bug#549337: upgrade-from-grub-legacy, had to fsck in order to boot

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Package: grub2
Version: 1.97~beta3-1

Hi,

I'm bugreporting but I'm not sure it will be helpful nor if it's really a grub2 bug.

I updated from Lenny (fresh install) to Squeeze.

It installed grub2, chainloaded after grub1.

It worked fine and I was able to boot from grub2 menu.


I had to reinstall gnome, because I let some "autoclean"
uninstalling most of my packages, and so I had to reinstall new squeeze
packages of gnome.

I ran the 'upgrade-from-grub-legacy' command.


When prompted, I ticked my hard-drive so that it installs grub on it.

I rebooted.

Grub2 starts, it starts kernel 2.6.30, then it loads a bit, then kaboom! It asked me to fsck my /dev/sda6 partition.


I entered my admin password, then fscked it.

I reboot, then same problem for other partitions.
I
did something which I feared could have caused troubles: I started
fdisk, it detected a problem with some flag set to 000x0 (or something
like that on /dev/sda5 IIRC), it just asked to rewrite the partition table,
which I did.

Then I fscked other partitions (/dev/sda6 and /dev/sda8), then I rebooted, and it fortunately went fine !

=== Some infos about the partition table: 
    
debian1525:/home/fab# mount
/dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)


===  Some other infos:

debian1525:/home/fab# fdisk /dev/sda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:

1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
 (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0000000

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          12       96358+  de  Dell Utility

/dev/sda2              13       14593   117121882+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5              13          24       96358+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6              25        2091    16603146   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            2092        2213      979933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda8            2214       14593    99442318+  83  Linux

===

Hope this helps, if you need to know something I'll try to help.