Binary package hint: grub2
I just installed natty alpha 3 on a samsung NC10 netbook. When booting, immediately after the grub screen I see the error message:
'sparse file not allowed.
press any key to continue'
after pressing any key the boot continues as normal.
This is with btrfs on / and a separate ext4 partition for /home. I had created the btrfs partition manually (i.e. in a shell outside ubiquity) simply running mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1 and it was not reformatted in ubiquity.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: grub-pc 1.99~rc1-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 17 11:14:52 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Confirmed here. Though my configuration is a bit different it gives the same behaviour as here above described.
I run Natty alpha3 amd64 with kernel 2.6.38-7-generic.
sudo fdisk -l responds with the following:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x57853315
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 102400 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 2563 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2563 54428 416603136 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 54428 60802 51198976 7 HPFS/NTFS
With /dev/sda1 mounted as /boot formatted as reiserfs, /dev/sda2 is also formatted as reiserfs and mounted as /
/dev/sda3 is an ext4 partition mounted as /home and /dev/sda4 is my Windows partition.