grub vs. grub2

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Greg Woods wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 20:18 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Greg Woods writes:
> 
> > As has been mentioned in other threads, grub2 requires 2048 sectors at
> > the start of the disk
> 
> Not exactly. This generally happens only with mdraid volumes. Without 
> mdraid, grub2 should fit within 63 sectors

I do not have an mdraid on my laptop, and I still got the "embedded area
is too small" error when trying to run grub2-mkconfig. I was never able
to modify my grub2 configuration until I repartitioned the disk to
create a 2048 sector boot area.


I had the same issue



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