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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
