Bug#1051543: grub2: Fails to load normal.mod from a XFS v5 parition.

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, dem 09.09.2023 um 15:41 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Andrzej
Siewior:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 2.12~rc1-9
> Severity: Serious
> control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64376
> 
> I have a single XFS partition which contains the root filesystem and
> the
> boot partition. Since the recent upgrade to the 2.12 series I can't
> boot
> anymore because grub complains that it can't find normal.mod and
> remains in
> the rescue shell.
> The ls command kind of works. A ls in /boot/grub/i386-pc/ (where the
> normal.mod should be) shows a few files and then abort with the error
> message: 'error: invalid XFS directory entry'.
> 

Hi Sebastian,

there's now a patch from Jon DeVree upstream, which might fix this for
you. Is it possible for you to test his patch?

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-09/msg00059.html