Bug#565685: fails to boot with "sparse file not allowed"

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Sorry, my bug description was not correct: By accident "notail" was
> _not_ set. The workaround mentioned on the Ubuntu bug tracker worked:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/comments/6

I believe the real problem is your setup is using blocklists, but your
initial report didn't include the information to determine that.

Please could you attach the output of:

  sudo bash -c "/usr/share/bug/grub-pc/script 3>&1"

  ?

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Robert Millan

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