grub vs. grub2

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:34:03 -0700
Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> 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 can confirm it happens anyway. But don't repartition - use a map file,
and ask wtf Fedora didn't think to check if you wanted to do that anyway.

Alan