Lapohos Tibor writes:
... and I got a warning and an error message:
"Embedding area is too small for
core.img." and ...
It rather reads: "Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in
it."
I found the error message accurate, but ultimately unhelpful when I got it.
I had to read the grub-setup source code to understand what the heck this
really means.
The "embedding area" is the space between your MBR and your first
partition. Loading up grub-mkimage with raid support or other goodies will
make core.img too big to fit in this space (on a typical disk
partitioned with just about any tool). So I rebuilt my disks with the first
partition offset a few MiBs from the beginning of the disk.
example:
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 5m 50%
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 50% 100%
Another solution is to label your disks with GPT (with a hybrid MBR). Your
embedding space should then be a real GPT partition with a GRUB type.
http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition
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