We use ext3 - and yes, it was the superblock time. Pressing ctrl-d + reboot did the job, however, it happens every boot (boot - Ctrl-D+reboot - boot - works - goto 1).
This was with chainloading from grub1, after running upgrade-from-grub-legacy I wasn't able to boot at all, Error 16 or 17 if I remember correctly. > -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Zielcke [mailto:fziel...@z-51.de] > Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 5:39 PM > To: 01; 549...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: Moritz Möller > Subject: Re: Bug#549337: upgrade-from-grub-legacy, had to fsck in order > to boot > > Am Freitag, den 02.10.2009, 17:38 +0200 schrieb 01: > > It asked me to fsck my /dev/sda6 partition. > > > > > > I entered my admin password, then fscked it. > > > > I reboot, then same problem for other partitions. > > I > > did something which I feared could have caused troubles: I started > > fdisk, it detected a problem with some flag set to 000x0 (or > something > > like that on /dev/sda5 IIRC), it just asked to rewrite the partition > table, > > which I did. > > > > Then I fscked other partitions (/dev/sda6 and /dev/sda8), then I > rebooted, and it fortunately went fine ! > > > > Do you remember about what fsck complained? > Was it about the superblock time? > > The partition table itself shouldn't ever be modified by grub-setup. > > Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 16:44 +0200 schrieb Moritz Möller: > > Same here - it says superblock is in the future - by exactly 2 hours. > As we're GMT+2 here, it seems to be a timezone related bug. > > I had that a few times too. > Maybe it happens when the journal needs to be recovered on the root > filesystem. > > I can't see why our tools can cause this. > The normal system file functions/tools are used to create /boot/grub > and > grub-setup only writes directly to MBR or bootsector. > But nothing more. > As long as you don't use XFS which stores it's superblock in the > bootsector, no filesystem metadata should get modified. > > Maybe some bug in the umount code. > > -- > Felix Zielcke > Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer
