Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 14:30 -0700 schrieb Thomas Fjellstrom: > On Fri December 18 2009, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom > <tfjellst...@shaw.ca> > wrote: > > > My core.img file is 31.13KB in size. Also the auto generated > grub.conf > > > seems to include a "raid" module that probably isn't needed? (it > also > > > includes mdraid and lvm) Is there a way I can remove it? > > > > > > And as I mentioned, I asked about this in the #grub channel on > > > irc.freenode.net and they seemed to hint at the fact that debian's > grub > > > package is known to make the driver modules larger in size that > stock > > > grub does. > > > > Ok, my core.img file was ~50KB so I had to repartition. > > > > In your case, you could use grub-mkimage to generate a new core.img, > > remove some unused modules and see if you image can fit. > > > > I'm not sure how to do that. I've run grub-mkimage and overwrote > core.img > which gets me to a 20KB file, and grub-install overwrites it with a > larger > 31KB file. Changing grub.cfg is impossible as update-grub overwrites > that > every time. I can't see a reliable way of configuring grub2.
grub-install should only use the modules for core.img which are required to access /boot/grub. You can see the list with something like bash -x grub-install /dev/sda 2>&1 ¦ grep core.img -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
