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Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090808-1
Severity: normal
When I try updating an existing Debian sid system to grub-pc, I get
the following mesages:
Setting up grub-pc (1.96+20090808-1) ...
grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap;
embedding won't be possible!
grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in
this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use
is discouraged.
The disk was partitioned with
echo -e "0,$P1SIZE,0x83\n,,0x8e\n;" | sfdisk -uM --no-reread $DEVICE
with P1SIZE most probably being 400.
This is the resulting partition table:
$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 819314 409657 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 819315 8385929 3783307+ 8e Linux LVM
Is grub misdiagnosing, or are all my existing systems prone to get
unstable when I have to use blocklists to convert to grub2 in the
future?
Greetings
Marc
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Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 17:25 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:
> When I try updating an existing Debian sid system to grub-pc, I get
> the following mesages:
>
> Setting up grub-pc (1.96+20090808-1) ...
> grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap;
> embedding won't be possible!
> grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in
> this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its
> use is discouraged.
>
> The disk was partitioned with
> echo -e "0,$P1SIZE,0x83\n,,0x8e\n;" | sfdisk -uM --no-reread $DEVICE
> with P1SIZE most probably being 400.
>
> This is the resulting partition table:
>
> $ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 819314 409657 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 819315 8385929 3783307+ 8e Linux LVM
>
>
> Is grub misdiagnosing, or are all my existing systems prone to get
> unstable when I have to use blocklists to convert to grub2 in the
> future?
>
Hi Marc,
well the first partition starts at sector 1, so there is absolutely no
space between MBR and first partition to embed.
grub-legacy should tell you too that it can't embed stage1.5 just not
that visible.
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