Hi, Gábor J.Tóth <debb...@jnet.hu> (10/11/2012): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > > I tried a clean install of Wheezy, on a machine with "traditional" > partitioning (i.e., first partition starting on sector 65). I assigned a > single partition to this setup, and selected btrfs for it. After the > installation completed, grub installation failed, complaining "Your > core.img is unusually large. It won't fit in the embedding area.." > > I now realize that the core.img with btrfs support is indeed too > large to install into the 32k available in front of the first > partition, but this realization required a good deal of googling. > What would be helpful, however, is to warn the user up front that > this setup isn't going to work, that they either need a different > partitioning scheme (e.g., bigger whole before the first partition), > a separate, non-btrfs boot partition, or not use btrfs.
speaking of btrfs, it doesn't seem to be mentioned on: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s03.html#di-partition Until somebody digs into btrfs-related constraints, maybe we should warn against that FS anyway, since AFAICT it's still dog-slow anyway. Mraw, KiBi.
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