preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.02.2012 02:49, schrieb Greg Woods:
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> 
>> grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg
>> /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. 
>> core.img won't fit in it..
>> /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be 
>> installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are 
>> UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
>> /sbin/grub2-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
>>
>> What do I do now! Embedding area???
> 
> This is the area at the beginning of the disk, before the first
> partition. Grub2 needs the first partition to start at 2048, but default
> partition layouts from Grub-1 systems start at 63. I have run into this
> several times and it is a royal pain. There may be some games you can
> play with gparted (shrink the partition, then move it), or you can do
> like I did, which is to dump the first partition, change it to start at
> 2048 (shrinking it a bit), making a new file system on the new
> partition, and restoring it.

WTF

and how you will upgrades older systmes in the future if GRUB1 is dropped?
jesus christ here are runnign 20 virtual machines installed 2008 and
there is no need for GRUB2 at all nor for GPT

nice that my new physical F14 setups last summer started at 2048 but
this does not change existing systems

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