Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:58:52PM +0200, Kurt Flex wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > > upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > > > The same for grub-common. > > > > A dialog appeared which asked me to run grub-install. But that > > failed. So i told the dialog to skip that part. Now I've tried > > grub-install manually. > > > > # grub-install /dev/sda > > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has > > no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. > > /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. [...] > > Any hints? > > Looking at your partition table, you have 512 bytes between the start > of the disk and your first partition. This is enough for a simple boot > loader, but Grub uses a multi-stage boot system. The 512 byte > "traditional" boot loader is termed "Stage 1". This jumps to "Stage > 1.5" which is a larger section of code and which contains the drivers > needed to load Stage 2. Stage 1.5, then would contain your MD driver > and your EXT2 driver so that grub can read the contents of your file > system and find /boot/grub/*. Stage 2 is then the full Grub, with the > menu, the config file and so on. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB#GRUB_version_1 for some useful > info.
Correct for GRUB 1. Kurt uses GRUB 2. The issue is the same. But grub 2 installation builds a core.img out of kernel.img and the required modules. No stage 1_5. merkaba:~> ls -l /boot/grub/core.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25509 Sep 6 14:41 /boot/grub/core.img 30 KB should be about fine, but I still recommend aligning to 1 MiB boundaries unless you know its not necessary. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110122001.43062.mar...@lichtvoll.de
