Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090808-1 Severity: normal When I try updating an existing Debian sid system to grub-pc, I get the following mesages:
Setting up grub-pc (1.96+20090808-1) ... grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible! grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged. The disk was partitioned with echo -e "0,$P1SIZE,0x83\n,,0x8e\n;" | sfdisk -uM --no-reread $DEVICE with P1SIZE most probably being 400. This is the resulting partition table: $ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 819314 409657 83 Linux /dev/sda2 819315 8385929 3783307+ 8e Linux LVM Is grub misdiagnosing, or are all my existing systems prone to get unstable when I have to use blocklists to convert to grub2 in the future? Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
