Re: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install.

[bl0]

On Monday 31 March 2014 18:22:57 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:32:20 +0200
>
> bl0 <address@hidden> пишет:
> > On Sunday 30 March 2014 19:04:55 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > Well, modern systems tend to start first partition on 1M boundary.
> >
> > Does this mean that grub2 will only support hard disks partitioned
> > recently and will not support hard disks which have been in use for a
> > longer time?
>
> address@hidden:~> LC_ALL=C ll /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26480 Jan 14 22:06 /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img

Some info where the size comes from:
$ /opt/grub2/bin/grub-mkimage -O i386-pc [module ...] | wc -c
31467  biosdisk part_msdos lvm minix
29941  biosdisk part_msdos lvm
23047  biosdisk part_msdos
22214  biosdisk
20165  (kernel only)
(minix smaller than tar or cpio on v2.00 but still doesn't fit)

My filesystems is mainly zfs on lvm, but grub can store its data on a 
separate lvm volume in any simple format it wants. I can't easily create 
more msdos partition table entries because of the stupid limit
of 11 partitions in some linux (kernel) versions.

> Good. So you have solution for your problem.

Yes. With this in place, I'm happy with grub2 overall.

-- 
bl0