On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de> wrote: > Last night I finally got around to update my grub1 chainloader to grub2. > During install of the bootloader I ran into this issue: > > grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed > in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and > their use is discouraged.. > > I think everyone just gets around this message by always passing > --do-it-anyway to grub2-install. At least the distro I'm using does > this. > > But since the system I just reinstalled is still fresh I wonder what > needs to be done to avoid the --do-it-anyway option?
If device onto which you install contains filesystem it has to provide enough space to embed core.img outside of filesystem space. In practice this means btrfs - the only besides zfs that reserves enough space. Or install grub in MBR, 1MiB is enough. > > Right now I can not > imagine how the partition/filesystem layout has to look like. > > Olaf > > > esprimo:~ # parted -s /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee2590ff8f9 unit s print > odel: ATA WDC WD6400BEVT-2 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 1250263728s > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 2048s 4196351s 4194304s primary ext3 boot, > type=83 > 2 4196352s 6293503s 2097152s primary ext2 > type=83 > 3 6293504s 23070719s 16777216s primary linux-swap(v1) > type=82 > 4 23070720s 1250263727s 1227193008s extended lba, > type=0f > 5 23072768s 111153151s 88080384s logical ext4 > type=83 > 6 111155200s 199235583s 88080384s logical fat32 > type=83 > 7 199237632s 287318015s 88080384s logical ext4 > type=83 > 8 287320064s 375400447s 88080384s logical ext3 > type=83 > 9 375402496s 463482879s 88080384s logical ext4 > type=83 > 10 463484928s 1250263727s 786778800s logical xfs > type=83 > There was really no need to post the whole trace. And such question is better asked on help-grub. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
