Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 08:22:28PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > > > On 14.08.2015 19:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > >Certainly Debian by default installs grub to the MBR (aka the disk), > >not to the partition. I would be surprised if any other distribution > >does it differently. > > >

Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On 14.08.2015 19:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Certainly Debian by default installs grub to the MBR (aka the disk), not to the partition. I would be surprised if any other distribution does it differently. openSUSE suggests partition by default. It makes sense for dual boot with Windows as

Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:29:23PM +0200, Olaf Hering 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 us

Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Olaf Hering 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 block

i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Olaf Hering
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 d

Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, Aug 14, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > And the question is? The question was graylisted, and then forced to fail. Or whatever... Olaf ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
And the question is? On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, Olaf Hering wrote: > >> /usr/lib64/grub2-chainloader/sbin/grub-install: error: will not proceed with >> blocklists. > > Forgot to post also remaining output with --do-it-anyway: > > /usr/lib64/grub2-chainl

Re: i386-pc target and no block lists

2015-08-14 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, Aug 14, Olaf Hering wrote: > /usr/lib64/grub2-chainloader/sbin/grub-install: error: will not proceed with > blocklists. Forgot to post also remaining output with --do-it-anyway: /usr/lib64/grub2-chainloader/sbin/grub-install: info: will leave the core image on the filesystem. /usr/lib6