diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 155a19b5a..262a25076 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-09-05  Robert Millan  <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com>
+
+	* util/grub-probe.c (probe): Comment out buggy codepath, which
+	was unexpectedly enabled by Colin Watson's 2009-09-02 fix.  This
+	should be re-enabled after 1.97.
+
 2009-09-05  Felix Zielcke  <fzielcke@z-51.de>
 
 	* gendistlist.sh: Add `grub-dumpdevtree' and `*.lua' to the list
diff --git a/util/grub-probe.c b/util/grub-probe.c
index 3c54408c3..4e3f96451 100644
--- a/util/grub-probe.c
+++ b/util/grub-probe.c
@@ -235,6 +235,9 @@ probe (const char *path, char *device_name)
 
   if (print == PRINT_FS)
     {
+      /* FIXME: `path' can't be used to read a file via GRUB facilities,
+         because it's not relative to its root.  */
+#if 0
       struct stat st;
 
       stat (path, &st);
@@ -258,6 +261,8 @@ probe (const char *path, char *device_name)
 	  if (memcmp (filebuf_via_grub, filebuf_via_sys, file->size))
 	    grub_util_error ("files differ");
 	}
+#endif
+
       printf ("%s\n", fs->name);
     }