Re: Ubuntu Jaunty ext3 --> ext4 upgrade issue

From: Tim Gardner
Date: Wed Feb 18 2009 - 14:24:42 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:10 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Ted,
>>
>> I've encountered a situation where the patches that you've proposed for
>> stable updates might be causing some issues. This user ivoks appears to
>> have an upgrade issue. I assume he's enabled ext4 on an existing ext3
>> file system. Hopefully I can get more details. Have you seen anything
>> like this?
>>
>> After looking at your for-stable branch, I think I'm missing a couple of
>> jbd2 patches. Could they be significant?
>>
>> rtg
>>
>> <ivoks> i'm getting 'Invalid or unsupported executable format' from grub
>> on all jaunty's generic kernels since (including) 2.6.28-7
>
> Does your grub have ext4 support? Otherwise I would suggest not
> converting /boot (or whatever other partition is used to load the kernel
> from).
>

Yep - Colin King implemented support for ext4 in grub 0.97.

rtg
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