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FS#14363 - [grub] floating point exception on ext2 setup

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Rene Kalff (rkalff) - Saturday, 18 April 2009, 21:39 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Thursday, 30 July 2009, 20:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Using the latest grub version (0.97-15) I'm unable to install grub on a ext2 formatted device using the following command:

grub> setup (hd1)

results in:

grub> setup (hd1)Floating point exception

Recompiling grub without the grub-inode-size.patch resolves this issue.
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 20:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in grub 0.97-16
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Sunday, 19 April 2009, 17:48 GMT
Looks like the same issue as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220687
Can you please test the revision patch they use (as well as some other distros): http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=160981&action=view , I don't have an ext2 partition myself
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Thursday, 07 May 2009, 08:57 GMT
any chance you can test it? I can provide a package if you need me to.
Comment by piroflip (piroflip) - Thursday, 23 July 2009, 08:22 GMT
The problem gone with gentoo patch.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 10:39 GMT
grub 0.97-16 in testing has the revised patch.

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