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

[bl0]

On Saturday 12 April 2014 19:46:57 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 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.

Ok. I guess one of my original questions in this thread is answered: my 
embedding area is not unusually small.

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bl0