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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:07:25 +0200
bl0 <address@hidden> пишет:

> > > > >
> > > > > 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:
> >
> > I know. I was replying to "will not support hard disks which have been
> > in use for a longer time". You really cannot squeeze every conceivable
> > feature into 32K.
> 
> Not every conceivable feature, only these features already supported in past 
> versions of grub2 such as 1.97. This could be seen as a regression.
>

If you are really concerned you could bisect it to find out when size
became too large. This could be starting point.

But returning to your example

> $ /opt/grub2/bin/grub-mkimage -O i386-pc [module ...] | wc -c
> 31467  biosdisk part_msdos lvm minix

This still should fit into 62 sectors. What is full grub.core size in
your case?