Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.99-14
Severity: important
Upgrading grub-pc gives the following error:
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img
won't fit in it..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required
when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.
My disks are still partitioned with the old alignment to CHS so there
embedding area is small. But not unusually so:
mrvn@frosties:~% ls -l /boot/grub/core.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31519 Nov 26 18:14 /boot/grub/core.img
root@frosties:~# sfdisk -d /dev/sda
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors
/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size=2930272002, Id=fd, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
root@frosties:~# sfdisk -d /dev/sdb
# partition table of /dev/sdb
unit: sectors
/dev/sdb1 : start= 63, size=2930272002, Id=fd, bootable
/dev/sdb2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sdb3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sdb4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
root@frosties:~# sfdisk -d /dev/sdc
# partition table of /dev/sdc
unit: sectors
/dev/sdc1 : start= 63, size=2930272002, Id=83, bootable
/dev/sdc2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sdc3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sdc4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
The older grub-pc package had no problem fitting so I must assume
core.img has grown and now doesn't fit anymore. This will cause
problems for many older systems on upgrade.
MfG
Goswin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc7-xen-1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii grub-common 1.99-14
ii grub-pc-bin 1.99-14
ii grub2-common 1.99-14
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2
grub-pc recommends no packages.
grub-pc suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/grub changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
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