Bug#543924: closed by Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> (Bug#543924: fixed in grub2 1.99~20101122-1)

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 04:56:59PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org> [Mon Nov 22, 2010 at 01:51:03PM +0000]:
> > #543924: "error: invalid magic number" when booting from .iso loopback
> [...]
> > It has been closed by Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>.
> [...]
> > Source: grub2
> > Source-Version: 1.99~20101122-1
> [...]
> >      - Support triple-indirect blocks on ext2 (closes: #543924).
> 
> Looking at the source AFAICS this fix isn't neither in unstable nor
> in squeeze. As this bugfix addresses a bug for iso loopback booting
> that's not that uncommon for people using this feature I'd like to
> see this bugfix in squeeze too.
> 
> I've verified this bug and grub2 (1.99~20101122-1) from experimental
> works fine with the loopback boot on ext3 whereas the version
> from squeeze/unstable fails.

Thanks.  I can't guarantee to get this into squeeze at this point, and I
definitely want to let the current version in unstable propagate first,
but I've queued this up on our squeeze branch in case it's possible.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]