Le 25/07/2017 à 16:03, Xen a ecrit :
Mistave schreef op 25-07-2017 14:19:
Unfortunately that doesn't work, and grub-install errors out with:
grub-install: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless
disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea..
grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required
for RAID and LVM install.
I can't find any useful information about this error online. Why is
this happening, is the dedicated partition (1 meg) too small? Out of
curiosity I tried installing grub to MBR (/dev/sdb) directly, and it
installed fine with no errors (don't worry, I had a backup of the
first 2048 disk sectors which I dd'ed back to the HDD later on).
I'd love to know as well.
Unfortunately, grub-install does not allow to install the boot image
and/or the core image in a raw unformatted partition. IMO it would be so
useful, though.
The easiest way is to create a small filesystem in that partition, I think.
Not any type of filesystem, because /boot/grub is encrypted so embedding
the core image is required, and you need a filesystem which supports
embedding.
AFAIK, GRUB supports embedding with only two filesystems : XFS and
btrfs. Some readings in GRUB changelogs suggested that it may support
embedding with the Minix filesystem, but I could not manage to get it to
work. Unfortunately, XFS and btrfs are not designed for partition as
small as 1 MiB. The smallest size I managed to create a btrfs filesystem
on was 5 MiB (with no available space for files).
Otherwise, leave /boot/grub unencrypted. But again, 1 MiB is too small
for /boot/grub contents.
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