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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:55:10 +0200
bl0 <address@hidden> пишет:

> On Thursday 10 April 2014 23:43:13 bl0 wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 April 2014 20:02:08 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > 31467  biosdisk part_msdos lvm minix
> > >
> > > This still should fit into 62 sectors. What is full grub.core size in
> > > your case?
> >
> > Do you mean core.img file? Yes it's between 30.5...31 KiB so it should
> > fit but grub-setup refuses to write it. I'll try to debug this later.
> 
> grub-setup limits core size to 2 sectors less than the offset of the first 
> partition. One sector for the MBR and one sector at the end I don't know 
> why.
> 
> "your embedding area is unusually small" may be displayed instead of
> the usual "your core.img is unusually large" if the first partition starts 
> at offset < 64 sectors (rather than 63).
> 

This is fixed in current master (or 2.02~beta2). It was indeed at some
point set incorrectly and went this way into 2.00.