Bug#565685: fails to boot with "sparse file not allowed"

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:40:13AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Sorry, my bug description was not correct: By accident "notail" was
> > _not_ set. The workaround mentioned on the Ubuntu bug tracker worked:
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/comments/6
> 
> I believe the real problem is your setup is using blocklists, but your
> initial report didn't include the information to determine that.

Erm, sorry, that's not the problem.  Actually I can't make any sense of this;
the error you see is caused by load_env, and it is clear why it fails, but
load_env failure is *not* supposed to interrupt build.

So either there's something wrong with error handling or it's just a red
herring and the problem is something entirely different.

Does this problem happen with 1.98~20100101-1 ?  (make sure you re-run *both*
grub-install and update-grub after downgrading the package)

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Robert Millan

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