Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 03.11.2012 16:58, schrieb Andrey Borzenkov:
> > No, I'm absolutely unsure. That's why I'm asking here on the list. My
> > question in little other words: How to dertermine, how many bytes of
> > the gap between MBR and 1st partition are used by GRUB 2, so should
> > not be deleted or shrinked or used otherwise
>
> You could try findgrub
> http://www.unixversal.com/linux/openSUSE/findgrub-4.4.1.tgz and/or
> bootinfoscript
> (https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/blob/master/bootinfoscript
> - I point to my repo because SF variant did not work with GRUB2 we
>    have here on openSUSE). Both scripts scan disks for bootloaders.

Thanks!
Hm, it seems you are now getting unsure about your first answer: "core.img is *the* part of grub 
which is installed in MBR gap"

Hopefully some developers are reading this thread. Maybe they could implement a new option, 
reporting GRUB 2's size in the MBR gap.

-Ulf
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