Bug#1070733: linux-image-5.10.0-29-amd64 fails to boot with Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 06:31:53AM +0100, Dan Poltawski wrote:
> After upgrading to linux-image-5.10.0-29 the system fails to boot with
> grub 'Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure'. Booting into linux-image-5.10.0-28-amd64
> and the system is once again bootable
> 
> The console displays:
> Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 5.10.0-29-amd64'
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-29-amd64 root=UUID=ca38e015-f8d1-4ef0-9dc9-b56d7c8
> le0f1 ro
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3c00, size=0x6b5f40]
> Initrd /boot/initrd. img-5.10.0-29-amd64
> Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure
> Press any key to continue...-

If I find time I'll have a look at this (probably just by looking
through GRUB 2 for candidate backports and hoping that one of them
helps).  However, I should warn you that GRUB Legacy is extremely very
unmaintained at this point; I've really just been doing last-resort
patching for years, and this normally hasn't included debugging its
filesystem code.  It'd be in your interests to migrate to GRUB 2.

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]