Bug#575076: msdos fstab mode

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:16:55PM +0200, Marc Leeman wrote:
> I can't find my bugreport from yesterday; but since my return e-mail
> was not correct; it could have been lost there.

I don't see any previous mail from you in this bug report.  Are you sure
that it is appropriate for you to follow up to this bug, rather than
filing a fresh one?  It's not obvious from what you've said here that
it's related.

> My grub boot got corrupted because the dos compatibility mode was
> selected in fstab during install of lenny.
> 
> I disabled this (c) and enabled another mode with u
> 
> It started to dawn to me that my /boot partition was listed with
> 
> (hd0,msdos1) and not the expected (hd0,1).

This is nothing to worry about - it's part of GRUB gaining more correct
support for strange corner cases that involve nested partition tables.
I don't think it relates to whatever your problem is.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]